:00:25. > :00:35.And it's the flag of Uganda draped across the shoulders of Stephen
:00:35. > :00:40.
:00:40. > :00:48.Kiprotich. He is the Olympic Beautiful! This is effectively a
:00:48. > :00:54.lap of honour. "Come on," he says. They're going quicker and quicker.
:00:54. > :00:59.He held his nerve brilliantly! all the way! Oh, look at the time.
:00:59. > :01:04.Absolutely brilliant! The noise, deafening! My words cannot do
:01:04. > :01:14.justice to how I feel. And the crowd are already going ballistic.
:01:14. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:21.Have you ever seen anything like For seven years, the questions have
:01:21. > :01:25.been asked countless times. Could debt-ridden Britain afford this?
:01:25. > :01:32.Could a nation of doubters have the conviction to pull this off? Could
:01:32. > :01:42.be athletes deliver? Now the questions had to stop. There was
:01:42. > :01:48.time only to take a deep breath and Earth has not anything to show more
:01:48. > :01:58.fair. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching
:01:58. > :01:59.
:01:59. > :02:05.in its majesty. This city now doth like a garment wear. The beauty of
:02:05. > :02:11.the morning. Silent. Bare. Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and
:02:11. > :02:14.temples. Lie open unto the fields, and to
:02:14. > :02:24.the sky. All bright and glittering in the
:02:24. > :02:28.
:02:28. > :02:31.With that, the action began. With something of a whisper - the sigh
:02:31. > :02:35.of a hope dashed. Mark Cavendish's gold medal chances are slipping
:02:35. > :02:41.away here. It just seems like most teams are happy not to win as long
:02:41. > :02:47.as we don't win. That's the story of our life. Vos takes gold and
:02:47. > :02:52.Armitstead gets silver. When the first medal came, it was celebrated.
:02:52. > :03:02.Relief at being off the mark. There was a first British medal in men's
:03:02. > :03:05.
:03:05. > :03:12.And a team on a different kind of horse won silver. Even so, there
:03:12. > :03:18.was a slight sense of anti-climax. Bronze for Rebecca Adlington was OK.
:03:18. > :03:21.It was hard. It was so hard. four days had gone by. Nobody dared
:03:21. > :03:31.suggest that Team GB were choking but when would somebody clear their
:03:31. > :03:39.
:03:39. > :03:47.throat and let out a roar? Where It came on the fifth day. Rowing -
:03:47. > :03:50.ever reliable rowing - rowed to the rescue. It's an exceptional start
:03:50. > :03:58.now from Helen Glover and Heather Stanning. They are just storming
:03:58. > :04:08.away. And look at that. It is simply stunning. They move away and
:04:08. > :04:15.they move away with some power and grace. They are making history here
:04:15. > :04:25.at Eton Dorney. Great Britain into the record books and so fabulously
:04:25. > :04:25.
:04:25. > :04:32.Great Britain have Olympic champions. Helen Glover and Heather
:04:32. > :04:35.Stanning, we stand up and we salute you. The pair that rowed to gold.
:04:35. > :04:39.And about to hit the road out of Hampton Court, Britain's favourite
:04:39. > :04:45.pair of sideburns - as worn by the first Briton ever to win the Tour
:04:45. > :04:53.de France, just days before the time trial here. A man that
:04:53. > :05:01.certainly hasn't lost any fluidity at all is Bradley Wiggins. Look at
:05:01. > :05:04.this. He is actually poetry in motion. Six medals to his credit in
:05:04. > :05:07.the Olympics and it's looking like it's going to be gold today.
:05:07. > :05:11.Bradley Wiggins is the Olympic champion. To be honest, it had to
:05:11. > :05:14.be gold today or nothing, you know? What's the point in having seven
:05:14. > :05:18.medals if they're not the right colour, you know? But the main one
:05:18. > :05:22.is that it's four - number four - so I've got to carry on to Rio now
:05:22. > :05:25.and go for number five. Already making plans for the future. But
:05:25. > :05:32.for the moment, Bradley deserved a break. He set off to celebrate with
:05:32. > :05:36.a night on the tiles - without his bike. Also smashed, the British
:05:36. > :05:39.record for the Men's 200m Breaststroke. It's a fantastic
:05:39. > :05:48.silver medal for Great Britain and Michael Jamieson - what a brilliant
:05:48. > :05:58.swim that was. For the 40-year-old Greg Searle, bronze in the Eight. A
:05:58. > :05:59.
:05:59. > :06:04.silver for Gemma Gibbons and a What had started slowly was
:06:04. > :06:12.gathering pace. The medal rush. One after the other. Two in the same
:06:12. > :06:18.event. Valiant stop, through the finish line. And that is the
:06:18. > :06:27.fastest time we've seen. Oh, my goodness. They've got a silver
:06:27. > :06:31.medal. We don't just get one - we The last of this rapid-fire medal
:06:31. > :06:36.burst - Peter Wilson, six foot six tall and coached by Shaikh Ahmed
:06:36. > :06:43.Almaktoum. A farmer's son from Dorset, coached by a member of
:06:43. > :06:48.Dubai's ruling family. And he does it! Peter Wilson has done it!
:06:48. > :06:53.medals in the space of 47 minutes. Back at the lake, there was about
:06:53. > :06:56.to be one of the finishes of the Games. Great Britain get the silver.
:06:56. > :07:00.Now, the mighty Sir Steve Redgrave had been passed by Bradley Wiggins
:07:00. > :07:04.as Britain's most decorated Olympian. Another cyclist on the
:07:04. > :07:14.other side of town was about to try to equal Sir Steve as the winner of
:07:14. > :07:36.
:07:36. > :07:42.Into the velodrome, palace of the king - or at least the knight - of
:07:43. > :07:47.cycling. Here comes Chris Hoy, lining up for the run to the line,
:07:47. > :07:53.and the crowd are going absolutely mad. Gold medal for Great Britain.
:07:53. > :07:56.That is the fifth gold medal won in the Olympics by Sir Chris Hoy.
:07:56. > :08:05.about the Queen of the track? Victoria Pendleton, along with Jess
:08:05. > :08:09.Varnish, disqualified in the And there was trouble for the first
:08:09. > :08:12.Sea Lord. Ben Ainslie wasn't dominating in the Finn class and he
:08:12. > :08:19.was made by his rival to make a penalty turn at just the wrong
:08:19. > :08:24.moment. Or the right moment to wind him up. You know, he made a big
:08:24. > :08:27.mistake cos I'm angry and he didn't want to make me angry. The Olympic
:08:27. > :08:37.Stadium was about to reopen for business. Early in the morning, the
:08:37. > :08:38.
:08:38. > :08:46.heptathletes stepped out to be Jessica Ennis has got the potential
:08:46. > :08:56.to set this stadium alight. Her Olympic adventure starts here. She
:08:56. > :08:59.
:08:59. > :09:02.is a one-woman athletics team and Jess got away to a good start.
:09:02. > :09:05.Jessica Ennis has been closed down by Sara Aerts of Belgium but now
:09:05. > :09:09.she's beginning to pull away on the inside. Jess Zelinka's going well
:09:09. > :09:16.and this is a tremendous run by Jessica Ennis. Oh, my goodness! The
:09:16. > :09:23.fastest time ever by a heptathlete. The power of the crowd carried Jess
:09:23. > :09:33.Ennis. The first day of athletics, the last day of judo for Karina
:09:33. > :09:33.
:09:33. > :09:37.And on the theme of last days, was this the last chapter in a silver-
:09:37. > :09:42.tinted career of Katherine Grainger? At the age of 36, one
:09:42. > :09:49.last chance for a gold medal. Ladies and gentlemen, what we are
:09:49. > :09:56.seeing right now is that dreams do come true! At long, long last,
:09:56. > :10:01.Katherine Grainger is the Olympic champion. Worth the wait.
:10:01. > :10:05.Gold at last for Katherine Grainger. And for the men on this, women's
:10:05. > :10:12.day at the Games, a pair of bronzes. George Nash and Will Satch, who
:10:12. > :10:16.came together only a few months ago. And then the Northern Irishman. And
:10:16. > :10:23.the danger of being on your own is that there's nobody there to say,
:10:23. > :10:28."Alan Campbell, don't push it too far." If this was women's day - as
:10:28. > :10:30.in grown-up women - it was also a girls' night out. Into the pool
:10:30. > :10:33.went 15-year-old Katie Ledecky of the United States, showing no
:10:33. > :10:37.respect for her elders - including the reigning Olympic champion
:10:37. > :10:40.Rebecca Adlington. I think the pressure and everything - the
:10:40. > :10:47.expectation, everything going into this meet - has been a little bit
:10:47. > :10:50.of a battle. But I gave it my absolute all and I'm sorry that I
:10:50. > :10:52.didn't get the gold for everyone that was expecting me to. In the
:10:52. > :10:57.velodrome, in the slightly wacky world of the Keirin, Victoria
:10:57. > :11:03.Pendleton took care this time, and then reached for the turbocharger.
:11:03. > :11:08.Oh! Victoria Pendleton takes the gold medal. I can't believe it.
:11:08. > :11:11.Thank you so much to everyone that's helped me get here. The
:11:11. > :11:14.crowd have been fantastic. In the men's team pursuit, Ed Clancy,
:11:14. > :11:19.Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke and Peter Kennaugh had broken the world
:11:19. > :11:24.record on their way to the final. They now faced their old rivals,
:11:24. > :11:31.the Australians, and their new world record wasn't safe. Half a
:11:31. > :11:36.lap to go for the British team. The world record is 3'52".499. The gold
:11:36. > :11:40.medal is Great Britain's. Here they come, up to the line. Oh, look at
:11:40. > :11:46.the time. It's a new world record and Great Britain have won the gold
:11:46. > :11:50.medal. Saturday, August 4th, the middle Saturday. Day eight of the
:11:50. > :11:55.Games. Compressing medals into concentrated bursts was to remain
:11:55. > :11:59.the fashion, starting at the lake on this special day. The emotion
:11:59. > :12:07.would flow but not here. Four steely men in their boat of Kevlar
:12:07. > :12:10.and carbon fibre with nomex honeycombs. We have done it! We
:12:10. > :12:16.have done it! And we have done it in style. Great Britain, the
:12:16. > :12:22.Olympic champions. And in the very next race. So Sophie Hosking and
:12:22. > :12:25.Katherine Copeland now just rolling up to the line. They are the
:12:25. > :12:31.Olympic champions. An incredible, incredible scull. Two gold in two
:12:31. > :12:35.races. Greedy, almost. Almost. But then, it came apart. And suddenly
:12:35. > :12:40.we had to know about the small print of rowing - the 100 metre
:12:40. > :12:49.rule that allowed for a restart. And on the line now, Denmark just
:12:49. > :12:51.sneaking ahead of Great Britain. gave everything. We tried
:12:51. > :13:01.everything. We wanted to win so badly. Just sorry to everybody
:13:01. > :13:02.
:13:02. > :13:08.we've let down. You've let nobody down. Reliable rowing on the brink
:13:08. > :13:12.of tears. Four golds, two silvers, three bronzes. No wonder the water
:13:12. > :13:19.turned a little salty. The work was not yet done at the velodrome. Here,
:13:19. > :13:29.too, a fourth gold was about to be won. They are on fire! Dani King,
:13:29. > :13:37.
:13:37. > :13:44.Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell are Night fell and all eyes turned to
:13:44. > :13:48.the Olympic Stadium for the last instalment of a seven-part drama.
:13:48. > :13:54.This could be gold. If you cheer loud enough, Jessica Ennis will
:13:54. > :14:04.hear you. It doesn't matter that somebody's overtaken her. She's
:14:04. > :14:09.given us a magnificent seven events already. And here goes Jess. She is
:14:09. > :14:14.going to be the Olympic champion. Everybody is on their feet. The
:14:14. > :14:24.pride of Sheffield, the pride of Great Britain. Jessica Ennis is the
:14:24. > :14:29.
:14:29. > :14:36.All this hard work and the disappointment of Beijing. Everyone
:14:36. > :14:38.just supported me so much. I'm just so happy. The stadium had barely
:14:38. > :14:48.settled when an injury-plagued 25- year-old from Bletchley in Milton
:14:48. > :14:52.
:14:52. > :14:57.And it's big. Can you believe what is happening in this stadium at the
:14:57. > :15:04.moment? Eight metres and 31. Olympic Long Jump champion, Greg
:15:04. > :15:07.Rutherford. And barely had the crowd finished celebrating that
:15:07. > :15:16.when a 29-year-old from Mogadishu, Somalia, who came to Britain at the
:15:16. > :15:26.age of eight, set off on 25 laps of the track. So the 10,000m final
:15:26. > :15:30.
:15:30. > :15:36.There goes Mo Farah. That's his first move - real serious move -
:15:36. > :15:44.and there's been a response this time from Bekele. Mo Farah hits the
:15:44. > :15:54.front. A lap to go. The bell rings. Is it tolling for a gold medal for
:15:54. > :15:58.
:15:58. > :16:08.Great Britain? Will Farah have Farah with a metre lead but that's
:16:08. > :16:14.
:16:14. > :16:17.And Farah is kicking hard. The crowd are lifting him. Farah into
:16:18. > :16:27.the home straight. Just 100 metres to go. Has he got enough? He's
:16:28. > :16:40.
:16:40. > :16:43.kicking again. Mo Farah is going That meant so much to me. Just
:16:43. > :16:53.seeing my daughter, like, really emotional. She's coming out running
:16:53. > :16:57.
:16:57. > :17:01.Three gold medals in 45 minutes. Who could follow that? One man
:17:01. > :17:06.could and he will have his moment. But elsewhere, the sense that such
:17:06. > :17:12.a day could not be bettered. A bronze for Ed Clancy in the Omnium.
:17:12. > :17:17.Christine Ohorogu so close in the 400m. Sterling, sterling effort to
:17:17. > :17:25.get the silver. A silver for Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson in the
:17:25. > :17:30.Not much drama on this day after? In the gymnastics, suddenly there
:17:30. > :17:40.was - on the pommel horse. First Max Whitlock and then, last to go,
:17:40. > :17:41.
:17:41. > :17:45.Louis Smith. That is superb! For my money, that is worth a gold medal.
:17:45. > :17:55.It's a tie. Because the execution score was slightly lower than
:17:55. > :17:59.
:17:59. > :18:05.Down at the sailing, it had been fraught for Ben Ainslie. But he'd
:18:05. > :18:12.won gold, making it four golds and one silver at five Games. What was
:18:12. > :18:19.the Admiral's mood now? You are the greatest Olympic sailor in history.
:18:20. > :18:23.Yeah. Not such a quiet day after all. From Weymouth to Wimbledon, it
:18:23. > :18:26.was about to go wild. A sometimes- grumpy Scot from Dunblane, never
:18:26. > :18:32.really sure about his popularity, discovered he was a darling of the
:18:32. > :18:35.nation. Andy Murray had beaten Novak Djokovic. Now he faced the
:18:35. > :18:40.player who defeated him in the Wimbledon final - the great Roger
:18:40. > :18:49.Federer. Since he pulled on that Team GB shirt, he's been like a man
:18:49. > :18:54.possessed this week. It's a golden triumph for Andy Murray! It's
:18:54. > :19:02.number one for me - the biggest win of my life. This week's been
:19:02. > :19:07.incredible. I've had a lot of fun. The support's been amazing.
:19:07. > :19:10.Immediately into the next doubles final with Laura Robson. Silver.
:19:10. > :19:15.Jason Kenny had been picked ahead of Sir Chris Hoy for the men's
:19:15. > :19:21.sprint. If the rider from Farnworth in Bolton was feeling the pressure
:19:22. > :19:25.of being selected ahead of the Scotsman, it didn't show. Kenny's
:19:25. > :19:29.got the head of the race, and Bauge will not take it. Kenny is the
:19:29. > :19:33.Olympic sprint champion! He wins the gold medal, and he won it in
:19:33. > :19:35.style! It was a battle to get here with Chris, knowing you've got
:19:35. > :19:39.someone on the sideline, who definitely wouldn't give that
:19:39. > :19:45.second sprint away. I was like, "Oh, I'd better not mess this one up,
:19:45. > :19:48.Beth Tweddle had led the revival in British gymnastics - three-times
:19:48. > :19:58.world champion, but never an Olympic medallist. She kept going
:19:58. > :20:00.
:20:00. > :20:04.for this - one last go - and a Greenwich Park, handsome home for
:20:04. > :20:10.horses and riders. The show jumping team were little fancied. The last
:20:10. > :20:13.time Britain had won a medal in this event was 1952. But here, just
:20:13. > :20:23.a few strides from the Greenwich prime meridian, everything was on
:20:23. > :20:23.
:20:23. > :20:28.the line. Just the double and the last to jump. Come on! Now the last.
:20:28. > :20:38.Down to Tower Bridge for gold. This could be the first gold for Great
:20:38. > :20:41.Britain since 1952! And Britain have got gold! It means absolutely
:20:41. > :20:50.everything to win this, especially for our country, for show jumping,
:20:50. > :20:53.you know. For me personally, it's everything.
:20:53. > :20:56.The moment came for an abdication. It was time for the king and queen
:20:56. > :20:59.of cycling to say their Olympic farewell. Queen Victoria left with
:21:00. > :21:06.a silver, but with such a sense of relief. It was such a
:21:06. > :21:10.disappointment. It's all over. You've been incredible. The king
:21:10. > :21:15.left with a leap into the record books. Shoulder to shoulder now as
:21:15. > :21:19.they come off the bend. And they're lining up for the run to the line.
:21:19. > :21:26.Who's going to get it?! Chris Hoy gets the gold medal! That's his
:21:26. > :21:30.sixth gold medal. He becomes the greatest British Olympian! I'm in
:21:30. > :21:35.shock, you know. You try to compose yourself and take it all in, but
:21:35. > :21:43.this is just surreal. This is what I always wanted. You know, I wanted
:21:43. > :21:50.to win gold in front of the home crowd. And who might fill the power
:21:50. > :21:53.vacuum? An all-rounder of the Omnium. Remember, she's got to
:21:53. > :21:56.finish three places ahead. In the time trial, gold medal is going to
:21:56. > :22:00.go to Laura Trott. In track cycling, there were ten gold medals
:22:00. > :22:04.available. Britain won seven of them. Such a tally was not possible
:22:04. > :22:07.on or near the athletics track, but this was a leap of faith by Robbie
:22:07. > :22:15.Grabarz, taking Team GB's medal tally beyond the 47 won at the
:22:15. > :22:22.Beijing Games. The tally included a windsurfer skimming for silver over
:22:22. > :22:27.the waves. Nick Dempsey, dancing on the sea. And horses dancing, just
:22:27. > :22:30.behind the naval college where once they taught how to rule the waves.
:22:30. > :22:40.They are a fabulous team. They've won Britain's first ever gold in
:22:40. > :22:44.
:22:44. > :22:52.Triathlon. Three sports, one after the other. Two brothers, one after
:22:52. > :22:56.the other. The Brownlees - Jonathan, the junior, third behind Alistair.
:22:56. > :23:01.This is effectively a lap of honour. Alistair Brownlee is the Olympic
:23:01. > :23:11.triathlon champion. And there will be both of the brilliant Brownlee
:23:11. > :23:14.
:23:14. > :23:18.brothers on the Olympic podium as Jonathan comes home for bronze.
:23:18. > :23:24.this may be the contrast of the Games. First that Dressage again.
:23:24. > :23:31.The individual competition, now. Outdoors, delicate, exquisite.
:23:32. > :23:38.She has got the gold! Charlotte Dujardin has iced the cake in style.
:23:38. > :23:41.Britain wins gold and bronze. don't know how we've done it but
:23:41. > :23:51.we've done it, and we've now got two Olympic gold medals. So,
:23:51. > :23:58.
:23:58. > :24:01.And then this. Indoors, volcanic, violent. Women's boxing was new to
:24:01. > :24:11.the Olympics but Nicola Adams looked as if she was completely and
:24:11. > :24:18.utterly at home in the bedlam. Nicola Adams, representing Great
:24:18. > :24:24.Britain, has come out absolutely blazing. Nicola Adams has just made
:24:24. > :24:28.history. It's a dream come true for me. I've been dreaming about this
:24:28. > :24:34.since I was 12 years old and the moment's finally come. And I've got
:24:34. > :24:38.my gold medal for Great Britain. Got another one on the board.
:24:38. > :24:43.hands and the fast feet of Jade Jones from Flint in the fight game
:24:43. > :24:50.of Taekwondo. You little beauty. And a teenage kicking superstar
:24:50. > :24:54.from North Wales is the Olympic champion. It still doesn't feel
:24:54. > :25:00.real. It feels crazy. I've dreamt about it for ages and now it's here,
:25:00. > :25:05.it's amazing. And the crowd have just been amazing! It was less full
:25:05. > :25:10.on the next day. Sailing to silver in the 470 class, Saskia Clarke and
:25:10. > :25:17.Hannah Mills, Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell. A hockey medal -
:25:17. > :25:27.the first for 20 years. And a bronze for Lutalo Muhammad in
:25:27. > :25:28.
:25:28. > :25:38.Was that it? Way back, there have been anxiety about the first gold.
:25:38. > :25:40.
:25:40. > :25:45.Was there time for a last one? Last It is gold for Ed McKeever. And the
:25:45. > :25:50.quiet man lets out a roar. And a bronze for Liam Heath and John
:25:50. > :25:54.Schofield. In the world of falling beautifully, Tom Daley had been
:25:55. > :26:04.struggling a bit. These had been difficult times - losing his dad,
:26:04. > :26:10.Rob, to cancer last year, and here not quite at his best. Until now.
:26:10. > :26:14.This was a bronze celebrated as if it were pure gold.
:26:14. > :26:19.In another flurry of arms, late medals came. The bronze had already
:26:19. > :26:27.come to middleweight Anthony Ogogo. And now bantamweight Luke Campbell
:26:27. > :26:33.was in the Gold final. Luke Campbell has done it again. There
:26:33. > :26:40.was a silver for Fred Evans. And one rousing boxing finale. Anthony
:26:40. > :26:43.Joshua is the Olympic superheavyweight champion.
:26:43. > :26:49.boxer who wouldn't give up and the modern pentathlete who didn't give
:26:49. > :26:55.up. Samantha Murray - silver. Back to the Olympic Stadium for one last
:26:55. > :27:02.night of athletics. Mo Farah had helped turn the second Saturday of
:27:02. > :27:07.the Games into a night to remember. What could he do now on the third
:27:07. > :27:16.and last Saturday? The crowd are on their feet. They are trying to roar
:27:16. > :27:26.him home. Saturday nights were Mo nights. He's got to find something
:27:26. > :27:29.
:27:29. > :27:37.extra. He's got to kick on. Farah is going to make it two gold medals
:27:37. > :27:41.for Great Britain. Beautiful! The question had been asked - could
:27:41. > :27:51.Team GB deliver? They had delivered beyond expectation. Out of this
:27:51. > :28:01.
:28:02. > :28:09.Early in the morning of the second Monday of the Games, a roving
:28:09. > :28:12.laboratory called Curiosity landed on Mars. Had curiosity got the
:28:12. > :28:21.better of Curiosity, and had it pointed a camera back into space in
:28:21. > :28:27.the direction of home, it might have detected a surge of energy.
:28:27. > :28:31.Signs of life on Earth. That would be the world going wild. How
:28:31. > :28:41.different from the sound a little earlier. When in the silence of
:28:41. > :28:55.
:28:55. > :29:01.Before the age of Usain Bolt, it was feared the 100m was turning
:29:01. > :29:04.into chemical alley - Olympic lanes of suspicious speed. But Bolt in
:29:04. > :29:12.Beijing had made it pure theatre, and now he was top billing in
:29:12. > :29:16.London. This is the race that makes the world hold its breath. Not a
:29:16. > :29:24.long breath, just the time it takes for this long stretch of Jamaica to
:29:24. > :29:32.become a legend. But danger lurked. Yohan Blake, his training partner,
:29:32. > :29:35.who had beaten him twice at the Jamaican trials. Also from Jamaica,
:29:35. > :29:42.Asafa Powell, and from across the Caribbean Sea, Richard Thompson of
:29:42. > :29:44.Trinidad & Tobago, and Churandy Martina of Curacao. And three
:29:45. > :29:54.Americans, Ryan Bailey, Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin, once banned for
:29:54. > :30:02.four years on a doping rap. The 100m. This had always been
:30:02. > :30:12.America's race, and they wanted it back. 80,000 drew their breath. And
:30:12. > :30:34.
:30:34. > :30:44.Gatlin is up very quickly. Bolt turns on the big engine and takes
:30:44. > :30:47.
:30:47. > :30:53.command! Usain Bolt! Bolt! Bolt! Bolt, Bolt, Bolt! He is pulling
:30:53. > :31:03.away, he is going to win the gold! He is still the king of the 100!
:31:03. > :31:03.
:31:03. > :31:13.My coach said, "Stop worrying about the start. The best part of your
:31:13. > :31:23.race is at the end." Usain! Once, from London, Britain had
:31:23. > :31:24.
:31:24. > :31:33.ruled Jamaica. Now, 50 years after independence, Jamaica ruled London.
:31:33. > :31:43.Gold medallist and Olympic champion, representing Jamaica, Usain Bolt!
:31:43. > :31:52.
:31:52. > :32:02.Four days later, Bolt was back. And Yohan Blake was back. With a third
:32:02. > :32:13.
:32:13. > :32:21.Jamaican, Warren Weir, the 200. Look at Bolt go! It's a three-metre
:32:21. > :32:25.lead as he comes into the home straight. Here comes Blake, though,
:32:25. > :32:31.running him down, but he's not going to catch him. Bolt's going to
:32:31. > :32:36.do it again! 19.32. Gold all the way. Blake takes silver. Warren
:32:36. > :32:43.Weir has got the bronze. A Jamaican clean sweep. You cannot argue that
:32:43. > :32:48.he has no equal. He is just incomparable in the world of
:32:48. > :32:57.sprinting. The only man ever to have defended the Olympic 200m
:32:57. > :33:02.title. This is what I wanted, and I got it. I'm really dedicated to my
:33:02. > :33:07.work, and I know what London meant to me and I came here and I gave it
:33:07. > :33:11.my all. I gave it my best and I'm proud of myself. For every Jamaican
:33:11. > :33:21.man, there is a Jamaican woman. There was a 100m title to defend
:33:21. > :33:32.
:33:32. > :33:37.Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce really If Jamaica was leading the way,
:33:37. > :33:42.there was a response across the Caribbean. Here was Grenada's turn
:33:42. > :33:51.in a longer sprint. Kirani James is going to take Olympic gold, his
:33:51. > :34:01.nation's first ever! The Dominican Republic. Sanchez takes the gold
:34:01. > :34:05.
:34:05. > :34:08.medal! The Bahamas. The Bahamas are challenging the United States!
:34:08. > :34:12.Champions for the very first time. That's how we put it down!
:34:12. > :34:16.largest island in the Caribbean, Cuba. Cuba is big but, compared
:34:16. > :34:25.with America, still a speck. All these islands fleabites on the
:34:25. > :34:31.flanks of the giant. And how would the giant react? Out came the champ.
:34:31. > :34:39.The greatest swimmer of all time at his fourth and last Games. Six
:34:39. > :34:42.golds in Athens, eight in Beijing, going for seven in London. This
:34:42. > :34:46.would show the world America wasn't spent yet, wouldn't it? Phelps
:34:46. > :34:50.looks in trouble here. Is he going to lose the 400 to this guy
:34:50. > :34:56.leading? And he's leading by miles. Ryan Lochte wins the 400 medley.
:34:56. > :34:59.And look at that - Michael Phelps is fourth! Not in the first final.
:34:59. > :35:03.Another swimmer was having to make the American point. Nor in the
:35:03. > :35:07.second. Thanks to a French revolution in the pool, France were
:35:07. > :35:11.on their way to a record haul of seven medals. I think the French
:35:11. > :35:15.might win this, you know. This is an amazing swim. After so many
:35:15. > :35:18.years of coming second and third, finally the French have done it.
:35:18. > :35:21.The French commentators to our right are going more nuts than you,
:35:21. > :35:29.Andy. They're up and down all over the place. Les Francais, champions
:35:29. > :35:38.Olympiques! Nor the third. Michael Phelps was being upstaged by a
:35:38. > :35:43.South African and his dad. What a beautiful boy. Look! Sorry, sorry!
:35:43. > :35:46.Was there to be no grand exit? There was. The crowd is starting to
:35:46. > :35:50.stand up and salute the greatest Olympian in history. Michael Phelps
:35:50. > :35:53.bringing home the American team. The gold in the men's 4x200m
:35:53. > :36:01.freestyle goes to USA, and Michael Phelps becomes the greatest
:36:01. > :36:05.Olympian in history with 19 medals, his 15th gold. We did it. First
:36:05. > :36:14.gold of the meet, so I am very happy. The final of the men's 200m
:36:15. > :36:19.individual medley. Well, Michael Phelps may well get this back, but
:36:19. > :36:22.Lochte's is not giving up yet in lane four. Lochte is coming back
:36:22. > :36:25.but I think it's going to be Michael Phelps. The great Michael
:36:25. > :36:30.Phelps has just won his 20th Olympic medal. Someone special rang
:36:30. > :36:36.you yesterday, didn't they? Yeah, the President called me yesterday.
:36:36. > :36:39.It was pretty cool! It was just... Somebody called and asked for me
:36:39. > :36:48.and they said, "Hold, please, for the President of the United
:36:48. > :36:52.States," and I was like, "Er, OK!" The final of the men's 100 fly.
:36:52. > :36:56.Michael Phelps in lane four's still got a lot of work to do. He is
:36:56. > :36:59.coming back but still there is Chavez. Is Chavez going to get it?
:36:59. > :37:04.No, Phelps has got it. Kids put their parents through all sorts of
:37:04. > :37:11.grief, don't they?! That is the end of Michael Phelps, and where does
:37:11. > :37:15.he finish? He finishes right on top! His 18th Olympic gold medal.
:37:15. > :37:21.dreamt of being the greatest. Looking back on my career, I know I
:37:21. > :37:26.am hanging my suit up, retiring. Looking back and saying, "I've done
:37:26. > :37:30.everything I wanted." At the age of 27, Michael Phelps was done,
:37:30. > :37:38.weighed down by 22 Olympic medals - 18 of them gold - the greatest of
:37:38. > :37:41.all time. It seemed America was hardly struggling after all. They
:37:41. > :37:44.failed to win a men's boxing medal for the first time ever, but they
:37:44. > :37:54.were going toe-to-toe with China to see who would stop the overall
:37:54. > :38:07.
:38:07. > :38:17.medal table. -- top. What about Three times the Olympic beach
:38:17. > :38:45.
:38:45. > :38:55.The strongest woman in the world is That is what synchronised diving is
:38:55. > :38:55.
:38:55. > :39:39.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:39:39. > :39:49.A ruthless display of utter United States of America looking
:39:49. > :40:17.
:40:17. > :40:23.The Star-Spangled Banner is flying There was one last thing on the
:40:23. > :40:30.wish list at the track - a world record to fall. Out stepped a
:40:30. > :40:38.Kenyan prodigy, a Masai middle- distance wonder. His tactics? He
:40:38. > :40:41.said, "I decided to go for it." is all about David Rudisha. Already
:40:41. > :40:49.the world record holder, already the world champion, striding away
:40:49. > :40:59.to become the Olympic champion. How quick will it be? That's a world
:40:59. > :41:07.
:41:07. > :41:13.record! Simply unbelievable! How do Team America decided to go for it
:41:13. > :41:20.the next night. Bianca Knight. And she's going to hand over to
:41:20. > :41:25.Carmelita Jeter. This looks like the USA all the way. The USA coming
:41:25. > :41:34.away. The clock is going to stop at a marvellous time. Carmelita Jeter
:41:34. > :41:38.wins it for the USA, Jamaica in second. The Ukrainian third.
:41:38. > :41:48.America. The dominant force, still, in track and field - the heart of
:41:48. > :41:55.
:41:55. > :42:03.the Games. There was still time for a speck of an island in the
:42:03. > :42:06.Caribbean to have the final say. The 4x100m relay. Jamaica have got
:42:06. > :42:10.to get moving here. The baton changes are good. Fraser with it.
:42:10. > :42:13.He will be handing it to Blake. And now Tyson Gay. That's a decent
:42:13. > :42:17.change but Blake's now right on the Americans. But Bolt's going to have
:42:17. > :42:21.it in the lead and you know what that means. Here he goes. They've
:42:21. > :42:28.got the baton. Bailey's trying to hold onto Bolt. He's got no chance.
:42:28. > :42:33.Bolt's away and gone. Jamaica are the gold medallists again and it's
:42:33. > :42:43.a new world record. Smashes it to pieces. Two great teams but only
:42:43. > :42:54.
:42:54. > :43:04.One small island, one small cast of actors. The giant character of the
:43:04. > :43:09.
:43:09. > :43:12.MUSIC: "Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner".
:43:12. > :43:22.It's been a really, really nice feel around the Games. Just like a
:43:22. > :43:23.
:43:23. > :43:29.party atmosphere. $$BLUE It's been The atmosphere is amazing. Like,
:43:29. > :43:37.everyone is just so, like, happy all the time and that. There's so
:43:37. > :43:40.much cynicism in the press and so on. But when you actually come here
:43:40. > :43:43.or you see them on TV, it just blows you away. It's absolutely an
:43:43. > :43:53.amazing legacy for the whole of London and the whole of Great
:43:53. > :44:08.
:44:08. > :44:17.There is always something of the unreal about the Olympics. All this
:44:17. > :44:27.is far removed from normal London life. Strangers talking, smiling.
:44:27. > :44:30.
:44:30. > :44:33.It's not natural. But this is the Olympic bubble. The Olympic
:44:33. > :44:36.movement began as a fantasised, noble sporting world, without women,
:44:36. > :44:45.for privileged white men. It has had to change but it still swears
:44:45. > :44:48.to abide by the spirit of fair play. Reality tends to crash the party
:44:48. > :44:51.and fair play can be an early victim. Drugs, doping. Somehow they
:44:51. > :44:54.always manage to find their way into the Olympic vein and there
:44:54. > :45:01.were a handful of positive results here for stop the war against
:45:01. > :45:04.chemicals goes on. Working out the best route to the medals. Not
:45:05. > :45:14.winning sometimes helps in a round robin format. What happens if both
:45:14. > :45:18.teams decide not to win? They are serving fault after fault. They are
:45:18. > :45:22.just hitting the ball into the net. Depressing. I mean, who wants to
:45:22. > :45:25.sit through something like that? It is unacceptable. Is it wrong to
:45:25. > :45:28.enter one race when your mind is on another? Taoufik Makhloufi of
:45:28. > :45:38.Algeria in the 800 metres. Oh, hang on a minute. Hang on a minute.
:45:38. > :45:41.
:45:41. > :45:44.Banned for not trying. Then reinstated thanks to a doctor's
:45:44. > :45:51.note. A quick massage, feeling better, and off he went in the 1500
:45:51. > :45:54.metres. He's completely destroyed this Olympic field. Where on earth
:45:54. > :45:57.did he get that from? It's a question of judgement, or judging.
:45:57. > :46:00.Here there is sometimes a problem, when it's all about one person's
:46:00. > :46:03.view of things. When one boxer is knocked down six times, he might be
:46:03. > :46:07.odds-on to lose. What is the referee doing? What was wrong with
:46:07. > :46:15.that? Should be counted. Not here. The winner, in the blue corner,
:46:15. > :46:23.representing Azerbaijan, Magomed Abdulhamidov. Satoshi Shimizu of
:46:23. > :46:26.Japan only won on appeal. The referee was expelled from the Games.
:46:26. > :46:33.Korean fencer Shin Lam thought she had won, only to see the clock
:46:33. > :46:43.reset to one second and then to lose in that second. It led to this
:46:43. > :46:47.
:46:47. > :46:52.lonely protest. We are going to be But in general, it seemed that most
:46:52. > :46:55.were happy to be here. Every time I see people, they are all cheered up
:46:55. > :47:02.and they keep telling us, "Thank you, thank you," so I guess we're
:47:02. > :47:06.doing a good job. I think the country needed this. The police had
:47:06. > :47:15.a massive leave ban and I thought, "If we can't get any time off over
:47:15. > :47:19.the summer, we might as well be # Everybody get in the groove and
:47:19. > :47:22.let the good times roll. # I'm gon' stay here till I soothe
:47:22. > :47:28.my soul. # If it takes all night long
:47:28. > :47:30.#. Oscar Pistorius South Africa came to London - the Blade Runner.
:47:30. > :47:37.Nervous but happy was Rand al- Mashhadani of Iraq, the lowest
:47:37. > :47:42.ranked archer who had to play Ki Bo-Bae, the number one. It didn't
:47:42. > :47:45.last long but it was a joy. Contrastingly, Ki Bo-Bae went on to
:47:45. > :47:49.win the gold medal and immediately burst into tears, apologising to
:47:49. > :47:55.her country for winning with an eight. "In Korea," she said, "we do
:47:55. > :47:57.not shoot eights." Sport is taken seriously in Korea and they had a
:47:58. > :48:07.seriously good Games, especially when they had a weapon in their
:48:08. > :48:12.
:48:12. > :48:15.hands. Iran were very good at # The world keeps spinning.
:48:16. > :48:20.# Changing the lives of people in # Nobody knows where it will take
:48:20. > :48:24.# But I hope it gets better, better, better
:48:24. > :48:27.Pavlos Kontides won a first-ever medal for Cyprus, a silver in the
:48:27. > :48:31.sailing. And 15-year-old Ruta Meilutyte won Lithuania's first
:48:31. > :48:34.gold medal in the swimming. Perhaps it wasn't so much these individual
:48:35. > :48:44.feats that stood out as much as those of a whole section of
:48:45. > :48:45.
:48:45. > :48:48.competitors, of one gender. These were the Olympics of the women.
:48:48. > :48:52.London in the age of the suffragettes had done its bit - a
:48:52. > :48:58.little bit - to allow women into the Olympics. There was women's
:48:59. > :49:05.tennis and archery in 1908. But in 2012, women came from everywhere to
:49:05. > :49:09.compete at the Games. For the first time, from Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
:49:09. > :49:17.For the first time, there was women's boxing. And the Olympic
:49:17. > :49:22.champion, in the red corner, representing Ireland, Katie Taylor.
:49:22. > :49:25.Women provided the finish of the Games. They are shoulder to
:49:25. > :49:35.shoulder. Norden comes alongside. Norden, of Sweden, takes the lead
:49:35. > :49:44.away from Spirig. It's a photo finish in the Olympic triathlon.
:49:44. > :49:46.Women took their spills and probably cried less than the men.
:49:46. > :49:56.It couldn't be perfect for everyone, although Holly Bleasdale's Olympics
:49:56. > :50:00.ended not with a flop but with a proposal of marriage. She said yes.
:50:00. > :50:05.But no, it couldn't end happily for everyone. And for one Londoner, it
:50:05. > :50:09.turned into a difficult time from start to finish. Phillips Idowu,
:50:09. > :50:14.born in Hackney, just a hop, skip and a jump from the stadium - on a
:50:14. > :50:21.good day. He arrived at last but for him, there was no home
:50:21. > :50:25.advantage. He will not make it through to the final. But what of
:50:25. > :50:35.London? How were the Games for the city? A question only a Londoner
:50:35. > :50:43.
:50:43. > :50:53.MUSIC: "Maybe It's Because I'm A # Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner.
:50:53. > :50:57.
:50:57. > :51:00.Us Londoners are a funny lot, used to living life at pace. And
:51:00. > :51:03.whatever happens in the city, we find a way to deal with it. Before
:51:03. > :51:11.the Games began, there was a tangible sense of apprehension. We
:51:11. > :51:14.knew the world would be watching and we wanted to get it right. We
:51:14. > :51:18.are also a pretty honest bunch. We don't pretend things are perfect
:51:18. > :51:27.when they're not. You see, getting around the city has not been easy
:51:27. > :51:29.the easiest, with the Olympic lanes Everyday life of those working
:51:29. > :51:31.around the Games has undoubtedly been unsettled, and there's
:51:31. > :51:38.probably a significant number of people looking forward to getting
:51:38. > :51:42.their city back. But the vast majority have embraced the Olympics.
:51:42. > :51:45.I mean, let's face it - it's not going to be back again in most
:51:45. > :51:49.people's lifetimes. That is why there has been frustration at empty
:51:49. > :51:52.seats. Millions applied for tickets and didn't get them. They would
:51:52. > :51:56.have loved to have witnessed those incredible "where were you?"
:51:56. > :52:01.moments first hand. Please don't run away with the idea that this is
:52:01. > :52:11.a public response to the venues. It's not. Those venues are humming
:52:11. > :52:16.
:52:16. > :52:18.MUSIC: "Welcome Home" by Radical The vibe is just amazing.
:52:18. > :52:20.Everyone's really happy. Even though you support different
:52:20. > :52:23.countries, everybody is really friendly. The atmosphere is amazing.
:52:23. > :52:26.The popularity of three events said it all, thousands lining the rainy
:52:26. > :52:31.streets for the women's marathon and Bradley Wiggins and the boys
:52:31. > :52:34.being cheered on for all 250 kilometres of the road-race cycling.
:52:34. > :52:40.What an incredible experience, to be riding the roads of London
:52:40. > :52:43.surrounded by hundreds of thousands of British fans. Londoners aren't
:52:43. > :52:46.known for being particularly sociable, but if you were in any
:52:46. > :52:49.doubt that the Olympics was special, you won't be now. You see, we've
:52:49. > :52:56.huddled around screens, waved flags and, best of all, we've done it
:52:56. > :53:05.together. # I've come ho-o-o-ome.
:53:05. > :53:09.# I'm home #. She's done us proud! Londoners are arguably at their
:53:09. > :53:12.strongest during the bad times. A stubborn resilience born out of
:53:12. > :53:16.necessity more than anything else. Maybe that's why we're often seen
:53:16. > :53:20.as cold - antisocial, even. But the last two and a half weeks have
:53:20. > :53:23.proven that we can enjoy ourselves. The atmosphere in the stadiums has
:53:23. > :53:26.filtered into the streets, and the city is buzzing. You can feel it in
:53:26. > :53:30.the air. And there's only one thing that everyone is talking about.
:53:30. > :53:35.Jessica Ennis. She's awesome. cycling guy, Sir Chris Hoy. Bradley
:53:35. > :53:40.Wiggins. Luke Campbell, who's from Hull, which is where we're from.
:53:40. > :53:42.Farah and Jess Ennis. We just cheered and cheered and cheered.
:53:42. > :53:45.It's the old British thing, isn't it? When there's something like
:53:45. > :53:55.this, we all come together and rejoice in something that is so
:53:55. > :53:56.
:53:56. > :54:00.When the Games have gone, London will return to life as normal.
:54:00. > :54:03.Olympic lanes will disappear. Venues will be pulled down. Lord's
:54:03. > :54:09.will host cricket, not archery. Pageantry and tradition will return
:54:09. > :54:12.to Horse Guards Parade. The big city will never be quite the same,
:54:12. > :54:22.but we'll always have memories. 16 days of smiles and sport - and one
:54:22. > :54:31.
:54:31. > :54:39.or two of those. Yeah? No. There's something of a chill that
:54:39. > :54:49.comes with that - going back to normal. Are even those who soared
:54:49. > :54:50.
:54:50. > :54:56.at London 2012 going to come down Are we soon to go back to taking
:54:56. > :55:01.the details of things going wrong and magnifying then? Remember the
:55:01. > :55:06.seats that went empty? The days that passed without a gold medal?
:55:06. > :55:14.Beautiful! The place erupts! still have the question of legacy,
:55:15. > :55:20.and the question is a tough one. How do you follow this? What comes
:55:20. > :55:27.next? In a way, though, this nation in debt - our land of doubters -
:55:27. > :55:31.had already set a new tone. Olympic flame burns on British soil
:55:31. > :55:35.at last. Back in the days when the Games were on their way to London
:55:35. > :55:38.and there was still time to be a bit sceptical about the whole thing,
:55:38. > :55:44.the torch pulled people out of their homes up and down, and all
:55:44. > :55:49.the way across, the country. Look at these crowds. Come on!
:55:49. > :55:54.Congratulations! I'm not really anybody, and people are stood there,
:55:54. > :56:04.cheering me on. I just think that's ridiculous! I felt like I was in
:56:04. > :56:07.
:56:07. > :56:14.This was what people thought of the Games, and it simply went on from
:56:14. > :56:19.there. I hope I manage to do it - that's all! I don't want to let
:56:19. > :56:23.anybody down, you know. You've got two choices in life. Sit and be
:56:23. > :56:30.lazy and do nothing and be depressed, or get up, get your legs
:56:30. > :56:34.on and live your life exactly the same way you did before.
:56:34. > :56:44.And it turned into this. Two weeks that changed the way we looked at
:56:44. > :56:45.
:56:45. > :56:50.sport - and each other. Could we afford it? Probably not. Was it
:56:50. > :57:00.worth it? The people who came out and made the Games - these London
:57:00. > :57:06.
:57:06. > :57:16.Games of 2012, have already Inspire a generation. The billboard
:57:16. > :57:16.
:57:16. > :58:14.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:58:14. > :58:16.slogan that became the Olympic wish # Imagine there's no heaven.
:58:17. > :58:19.# It's easy if you try. # No hell below us.
:58:19. > :58:23.# Above us, only sky. # Imagine all the people.
:58:23. > :58:33.# Living for today. # Imagine there's no countries.
:58:33. > :58:35.
:58:35. > :58:45.# It isn't hard to do. # Nothing to kill or die for.
:58:45. > :58:55.
:58:55. > :59:05.# Living life in peace. # Ooh-ooh, oo-oo-oo.
:59:05. > :59:07.
:59:07. > :59:17.# You may say I'm a dreamer. # But I'm not the only one.
:59:17. > :59:27.
:59:27. > :59:37.# I hope some day you'll join us. # Imagine no possessions.
:59:37. > :00:05.