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Welcome back to the opening day of London's Olympic games. You can | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
still pinch yourself when you say that. Everybody is still riding the | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
quest of a wave after the beating spectacle of last night's spectacle | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
-- Cresta away. Congratulations to Danny Boyle and his volunteer cast, | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
boy, did you pull it off last night! 26.9 million of you at home | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
stayed at home to watch it happen, which has given that the 541 | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
athletes the best possible send-off as they are of competition. Many of | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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the athletes are in action on this cyclist return from Beijing without | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
a medal, but now he has returned can he start a British gold rush? | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Ashley Mackenzie is the first judo competitor at the games, and we | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
will see him later. And as ever, plenty of options about how to | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
If you want to be immersed in the road race, they are three hours | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
into it, it is on BBC Three that life, but our priority is to head | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
back to Eton Dorney for more of the rowing events. Down there is a | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
gentleman who was involved in the opening ceremony last night, and, | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Steve, I don't know if you have come down yet? We are all a little | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
bit high last -- after last night. It was interesting to see you | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
around. And a little bird told me that you'd have not taken no | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
special trainers off since. Is that true? I got back to the hotel late | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
last night and rumour has it I have not got them off my feet, but they | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
did for a couple of hours, and my eyes did close a bit. It was a | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
great night, a lot of fun. To wear the shoes tonight with the gold | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
lace is, everyone has told me I have to wear for -- wear them for | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
the finals day, so they make make another appearance later this week. | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
You obviously got the call quite late. I actually knew about two and | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
a half weeks before. Unusually for me, I kept a good secret. I was | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
able to have a bit of running banter with Daley Thompson, which | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
was quite a lot of fun. And Gary took it up in the studio last night | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
as well. It was an elegant solution to who would like to the cauldron | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
that so many of the best Olympians of all time were there at the | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
moment of truth. It was very much that handing the bat on over. That | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
was what the bid in Singapore was about. Just to be able to pass it | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
on to the next generation, and that summed it up fantastically. Some of | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
our greatest Olympic athlete literally handing on the baton to | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
the next generation, and hopefully some of those athletes will produce | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
the same sort of results as their mentors have. You can crack on, and | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
I will hand the baton of presenting You were talking about Alan | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Campbell, and his races coming up, but for the single sculls, it has | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
been a competitive division. We have seen the men earlier today in | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
the double sculls, who are probably the flagship there is for the New | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
Zealand team. But Drysdale is not far behind. In the Cox is a pair, | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
the guys from New Zealand, but Mahe was favourite to win at four years | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
ago and ended up with the bronze medal. So the last four years have | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
been about getting it right. The Czech athlete has won the World | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Championships a couple of times, but Mahe is the main guy and want | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
the championships last year and is desperate to have this Olympic | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
title. He has been thinking about this for four years, and here is | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
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men's singles sculls, and what a Drysdale. A couple of weeks ago he | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
was knocked off a bike in training, so he had 10 days out and his | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
shoulder was strapped up, and unfortunately as he went round a | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
roundabout, not particularly quickly, but he has had an unlucky | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
run into the Olympic games. In 2080 got food poisoning while he was in | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
the Olympic Village -- in 2008 he got food poisoning. He was very | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
disappointed on that occasion not to get the gold medal that everyone | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
was anticipating, and with the road accident this time round, the world | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
was on the edge of its seat to see how he would do. He has come back, | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
and what amiss that - statement he is making. The romance of all of | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
this would be if the Norwegian defended his title again, as he did | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
four years ago in Beijing. It is not going to happen. He is not the | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
man he was. I think he is just glad to be here, and if he can make the | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
final, he will be happy. But at the moment he is trailing a long way | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
back. He has got past Egypt, but he has got past. Mahe is not easing up. | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
He is sculling better than I have ever seen him do. He is really well | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
with his connection. Only 500 metres remaining, and a sensational | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
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gap. The defending champion after in this event from Norway. This | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
would be a good opener. It will open up the lungs of Mahe Drysdale. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
He will know he has to qualify a direct into the quarter-final, but | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
he has plenty of time to use this almost as a training peace. He can | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
put his body under pressure, both in terms of pain and what his | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
shoulder can really sustain while keeping good technique. He will | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
note that the pairs went and wrote the world's best time by four | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
seconds, and he is probably thinking at the back of his mind | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
that it is great conditions, and he can have a go at this. He is not | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
letting up at all. He's pushing very hard. He is sculling well, | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
much better connection. He has corrected the problem with his | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
technique, and he is connecting much better with his lower back. He | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
is coming up to the grandstand, going very well indeed. He seems to | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
have eased off a little bit. Long, sweeping strokes. 150 metres from | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
the line. I don't think it will be a world best, but if it is he will | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
have done exceptionally well. He has done a job over the Norwegian, | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
the defending Olympic champion. But he will know that his shoulder is | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
in pretty good stead. A little look to the left for the line that he | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
will sense he is coming up to. And he comes right down, mate Drysdale, | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
he is back, and in what style he has done in -- Mahe Drysdale! He | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
waits for the Olympic champion to come up to the line, and over he | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
goes now. Getting the second qualification spot. For the | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
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their feet, and they are delighted with that performance from Mahe | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
Drysdale. Perhaps relief, really, that he is back and looking good | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
and the New Zealand crowds out there know that they have a strong | :09:22. | :09:31. | |
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men's coxless pair and may have an The Olympic qualification rules | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
have changed over the years, so the days of Eddie the Eagle have gone | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
forever, and it is not really fair, but the Nigerian, who came here an | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
awful long time after the rest. Maybe it is the winning, not the | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
taking part. The 35-year-old from Nigeria. I don't imagine the entire | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
budget of the Nigerian Rowing Federation amounts to a great male | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
-- great deal, but good on him to be here. If anybody wants to talk | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
about the sport being elitist, there is the proof that it is not. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
It is good to see him in some way. But that is a long way back. Mahe | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
1-over the reigning Olympic champion and then obviously a very | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
long way back to Nigeria. Would you allow him in? I would like to see | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
open entries. They should not be restrictions in some ways. I know | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
why there are, because being involved in trying to bring the | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
games to the country is the organisers need to know how many | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
beds they are catering for, how much food to get in, and the | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
Transport and all that side of it. You have got to be encouraging more | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
countries to get involved, but there are better scholars from | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
different countries not allowed to compete because of the limited | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
numbers you have got. We can perhaps return to that at some | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
point over the next week. Mahe dry cell looking hugely impressive in | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
his seat and now we will see Alan Campbell's race after a word from | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the man himself. A lot of things going on this season. There is a | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
lot of things in terms of pressure with it being the Olympics, but I | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
spent seven years doing the singles and will have a sudden I had to | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
look at a double, and in some ways it was an opportunity. But when I | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
said I wanted to stick with the singles it did not come out as the | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
most popular decision. I got a bit rough up and things were going on | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
outside of the boat instead of me being focused on the technique and | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
everything else. I thought I really had to prove myself every time I | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
went out to race. It really took its toll, during those World Cups. | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
But now I've brought it back inside the boat and focused on myself or | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
how I am at moving the boat and on what makes me feel good. We have | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
had a very good camp at altitude here, and I definitely feel much, | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
much better. If anything I feel more energetic and I have all year. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
What I have got to do is keep my mind focused on getting into that | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
final. As soon as I am in that final, not in an arrogant way, a | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
lot of it will take care of itself. There is nothing else that you can | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
do. There is no more training to be done. There are no more | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
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conversations to be had. It is just races for the final will be intense | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
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the start four years ago at the go. He knows he faces the biggest | :13:45. | :13:55. | |
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task of his athletic career -- Alan Only three will go through to the | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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quarter-final. Oh real big event for Alan Campbell. | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
He got the silver medal in the world championships and in the last | :14:32. | :14:41. | |
few years he has got bronze medals. He finished 4th at Lucerne this | :14:42. | :14:51. | |
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year. Pushed out by the Cuban sculler on that occasion. | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
He had a bad performance at Munich when he got pushed back into third | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
position. He approached that race without his usual attack and got a | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
bit caught out. He is by far the fastest sculler in this heat. And | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
he will now be relaxing, just powering along. Preparing for the | :15:23. | :15:32. | |
quarter-finals. He will qualify for the quarter-finals in as strong a | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
condition as he possibly can. There was no expectation that he | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
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would do anything but go clear in the first 500. | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
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This one will be just about getting the nerves out of the way. | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
The team arrived last Tuesday. This is the home course, they are well | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
acquainted with it. Alan Campbell is a man on a mission. He can be | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
somewhat erratic. It is whether it psychologically he can really keep | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
it together. He has worked really hard on getting the middle section | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
powerful and effective Sophie does not expend quite so much in the | :16:35. | :16:45. | |
first part of the race. -- so he does not. But he has not paced | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
himself all Motherwell. Here he does not have to worry, he can just | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
practice. Steady, powerful sculling. What do you think of his technique | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
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since you last saw him in Munich? Compared to when we saw him? Mahe | :17:20. | :17:29. | |
has improved his technique. Alan Campbell is sitting nice and low in | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
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medallist in this event. He was disappointed with his fifth-place | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
finish in Beijing. He is trying to put it right. He is coached by Bill | :18:00. | :18:10. | |
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Barry. And that partnership will hopefully come to fruition here at | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
Eton Dorney. It has been a long journey for them. Bill Barry has | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
had his sights set on a gold medal for his sculler and they had just | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
been focused on this. Team officials were at one stage trying | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
to put Alan Campbell into a double scull with Bill Lucas. But this did | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
firm against that. He wanted to continue in this project. So they | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
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stayed in the Single Scull right gets his Olympic Games well under | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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way. No surprises. He is doing all that has been asked of him. China | :19:18. | :19:27. | |
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in the second, of Poland in third position. Sloma of Poland, faster | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
than the scullers making up the Polish Olympic Quad. And the | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
Chinese sculler, he will carry on all the way to the line. So Alan | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
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knows he will have to keep going hard. The Chinese contender failed | :20:01. | :20:11. | |
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to turn up for the heat in Beijing so this is his first Olympics. | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
Alan Campbell just keeping an eye on his right hand side. It is going | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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to the Great Britain, China and Poland. Alan looking very strong. | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
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Niceley of fried in the boat. -- a is in fine form as he winds down to | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
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the line. China in second place. A solid start. Solid and strong. He | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
did not really have to extend himself too hard. He went out very | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
fast which is how he likes to do it. But I just want to see him making | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
sure his boat is travelling well in the middle 1000. What do we read | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
into that? I think it is a good start. The interview he gave before | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
was honest about this season. He was going well and then lost his | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
way as little bit. I'm pleased that he has mentally seen that. And the | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
way that he rowed there, he was getting back to grips with it. He | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
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was actually took seconds faster than Mahe. It is always difficult | :22:03. | :22:12. | |
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in the single sculls. They have to do four rounds. So it is a very | :22:13. | :22:22. | |
good start and shows he is back to where he has been before. If we | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
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show you the closing stages now of heat six, five athletes in this. | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
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The Czech Republic in something of a class of their own. Croatia there | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
in second place. But it is something of the usual suspects for | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
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the single sculls. It is the same characters. There are around 20 | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
people in the singles and there is a big gap between the best. It is | :23:07. | :23:16. | |
going to come down to around five scullers. That is just about it | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
from us at Eton Dorney today. Three British crews winning their various | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
seats today. Helen Glover and Heather Stanning were imperious in | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
the Women's Pair. The sun shone, the venue works and team GB have | :23:32. | :23:42. | |
the venue works and team GB have performed. | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
Well another Olympic sport to get going to date was cycling and the | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
road race. That has around two-and- a-half hours to go. That is | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
uninterrupted on BBC Three if you want to follow that. | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
And plenty happening as well, the second bite of Wimbledon tennis | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
this summer. We have Roger Federer and Serena Williams. Jamie Murray | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
and Andy Murray all involved on the opening day. And that is available | :24:21. | :24:31. | |
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for you on the red button. We're getting into head to head | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
combat in judo. For all the Olympic success of Great Britain, judo has | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
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struggled to keep pace. Just one medal since 1992 and that was the | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
silver in Sydney. So what has gone wrong and can be put it right this | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
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wrong and can be put it right this covered Matt. It has a 10 metres | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
square contest area surrounded by as safety area. The referee remains | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
in the combat area throughout the contest. Line judges stay outside | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
to confirm the decision of the referee if necessary. There are a | :25:30. | :25:40. | |
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variety of techniques used. The ultimate aim is to execute the | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
Ippon. It can be achieved by throwing your opponent flat on | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
their back, gaining submission with alarm clock or a strangle. -- arm | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
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the opponent does not land on their the opponent does not land on their | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
back. Well ASH Lee Mackenzie is up for | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
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Great Britain in the lightest of the categories. The men's 60 kilos. | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
Against the Japanese contender, a Against the Japanese contender, a | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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for the first time in these Olympics at the XL Santa. And we | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
have the British contender, Ashley McKenzie. | :27:01. | :27:11. | |
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Just turned 23. A Londoner in his home time at his home a Olympics. | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
Everyone has a story to tell but few have a story quite like Ashley | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
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blue. A brilliant start. He has opponent moving. He is an all | :28:05. | :28:15. | |
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action fighter, you can't see him on his toes. He was diagnosed as a | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
hyperactive child when he was aged 11 and he discovered judo not long | :28:22. | :28:29. | |
afterwards. He got into a fight and he said sport gave him a chance to | :28:29. | :28:38. | |
feel good about life, to walk on the pavement instead of the road. | :28:38. | :28:48. | |
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And now he is here competing at the London Olympics. Hiroaka doing his | :28:51. | :29:01. | |
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Really putting in the attacks. He is still acknowledges that he has | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
problems keeping on the straight and narrow. He has been banned for | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
four times for getting into scrapes, drinking too much. He is a | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
character and we are seeing the best of that character on the mat. | :29:47. | :29:56. | |
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How did he get himself out of that? That is one of Hiroaka's strongest | :29:59. | :30:09. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :30:09. | :30:58. | |
Award, for the yuko that puts you on your side -- the lowest level of | :30:58. | :31:08. | |
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points are awarded. We approach the fight him off. His coach has made | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
him live the life he should have led leading up to the big games, | :31:41. | :31:48. | |
letting him into his own here asking Kent. The penalty goals | :31:48. | :31:55. | |
against McKenzie and he moves -- the penalty goes against McKenzie | :31:55. | :32:01. | |
and he moves down again. As much as Ashley McKenzie tries to get his | :32:01. | :32:09. | |
attacks in, he's been beaten to his attacks. The referee was wondering | :32:09. | :32:19. | |
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whether the second effort was add their tuppence worth -- the to | :32:22. | :32:32. | |
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throat. They have upgraded the score to a waza-ari, so Ashley | :32:36. | :32:46. | |
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McKenzie has to turn this around this fight back again. This is | :32:49. | :32:59. | |
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not enough for McKenzie, he needs at least a waza-ari, the second | :33:05. | :33:15. | |
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most effective score. Perhaps a 22nd hole, that would do. -- a 22nd | :33:17. | :33:27. | |
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the Kraupp history of Japan here. - would have his hands full as soon | :33:56. | :34:03. | |
as he was drawn against him a couple of days ago. | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
exceptionally tough draw to come out against the world No. 2 in your | :34:07. | :34:13. | |
First bite. But Ashley is capable of the big throw -- in your first | :34:13. | :34:23. | |
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need now. He is fighting the same weight category as Craig Furlan, | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
the former world champion, who decided to quit before the Olympics | :34:36. | :34:44. | |
after moving up a weight. Issuing the instructions, the coach, but | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
might find some salvation for the Londoner. I think he's telling | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
McKenzie to just go forward. It is a risky business, but Ashley is | :34:54. | :35:04. | |
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has been scored by the Japanese -- et ease and ippon. Ashley | :35:17. | :35:23. | |
McKenzie's dreams End on his back. That was the risk, but he had to go | :35:23. | :35:33. | |
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forward. He had to give it a last having a mayor or draped round his | :35:44. | :35:54. | |
neck at the end of the -- aim medal A very tough draw drawing the world | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
silver medallist from last year. Least Ashley has fulfilled his | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
ambition of competing at the games but he will feel a sense of | :36:00. | :36:07. | |
disappointment. That is the nature of sport, as we go around the | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
Olympic venues. Next up it is Wembley Arena, and that was used | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
during the 1948 games. And as we during the 1948 games. And as we | :36:17. | :36:27. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :36:27. | :37:09. | |
look towards the east of us, he is we have seen the back and. -- | :37:09. | :37:15. | |
backhand. A good use of prow from Susan. A lot of cut shots in the | :37:15. | :37:25. | |
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first set, so she has obviously get there, do all the work and you | :37:41. | :37:51. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :37:51. | :38:56. | |
delightful Kinect shocked. -- net around the head. -- has sliced down | :38:56. | :39:06. | |
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around the head. How many winners into the lady next player there. | :39:27. | :39:35. | |
She knows she could at any given shop -- she news she could only do | :39:35. | :39:45. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :39:46. | :40:47. | |
shop -- she news she could only do straight smash. It is the right | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
tactic, because she as the drift with her. That means the per or | :40:52. | :41:02. | |
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smash will increase. -- how all or game was over 400 kilometres to | :41:17. | :41:27. | |
allow. Andy Roddick, each of art at -- 400 kilometres back row were -- | :41:27. | :41:37. | |
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the back home. -- she is snatching judge did not go away when it was a | :42:15. | :42:25. | |
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you do not want to start getting too cute too soon. We saw it in the | :42:42. | :42:49. | |
first game. She made five or six unforced errors, and these are | :42:49. | :42:59. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :42:59. | :43:44. | |
silly little mistakes that need to the cross-court angle. Again, | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
nothing too flash, nothing too outrageous, just simple, basic | :43:48. | :43:55. | |
Badminton. Sometimes you think that there players will always smash it | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
down the tramlines, but a smash at the person can be very effective | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
because they are trying to cover the sides but they forget they | :44:03. | :44:13. | |
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to be in. One game up, and 11-6 up in the second. Very clever play. In | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
the first set she was playing against the drift, so she had to | :44:41. | :44:47. | |
use that cut a lot more. But in this set she got the drift with her | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
and she will have extra power and has used the straight smash really | :44:52. | :45:02. | |
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talking about stepping up. Her opponent will not be able to hit as | :45:28. | :45:38. | |
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far back to the back of the court. If she can get to the shuttle a | :45:38. | :45:48. | |
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little bit earlier, she can put her really good, especially on that | :46:01. | :46:11. | |
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Knowing that her opponent is not a doubles player, her defence is not | :46:46. | :46:52. | |
the best. Maybe expecting that round the head cut, instead it was | :46:52. | :47:02. | |
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it really effectively now. In the first set she used it a lot because | :47:40. | :47:46. | |
she acted. Now she has got that smash as well, she is confusing her | :47:46. | :47:56. | |
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opponent. It is proving so about discipline during the 62nd | :48:26. | :48:31. | |
break at the interval. If she is going to progress out of the group | :48:31. | :48:35. | |
stage, she cannot give away points like that. That was a fair margin | :48:35. | :48:45. | |
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out. The hand goes up automatically in apology. It is politeness, but | :48:50. | :49:00. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :49:00. | :49:45. | |
building a commanding advantage in the second game. She is expected on | :49:45. | :49:55. | |
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paper to win. It has been a very finishing line. You and I just | :50:10. | :50:14. | |
looked at each other at the same time as if to say, there is no need | :50:14. | :50:24. | |
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match points. That was an 11 match point upshot if ever I saw one, | :50:47. | :50:57. | |
going for glory. Got back to the basics and that was more than good | :50:57. | :51:04. | |
enough. A look of relief and now she will feel an Olympian because | :51:04. | :51:10. | |
she has played her first ever match in an Olympic Games and she has won | :51:10. | :51:18. | |
it and she has won it decisively. 21-15, 21-10. She is graining and | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
deservedly so. It was a very, very good performance. She has been | :51:25. | :51:30. | |
injured over the past year, but it did not show, she was moving well, | :51:30. | :51:34. | |
her shots were crisper and her timing was fantastic. She has just | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
got to cut out those little, silly mistakes if she is going to | :51:39. | :51:49. | |
:51:49. | :51:49. | ||
progress. Overall a fantastic One more victory in her group will | :51:49. | :51:53. | |
see her progress to the knockout stages. Good to get her feet under | :51:53. | :52:00. | |
the desk. Speaking of which, Mr Jake Humphrey is in the studio. My | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
race is just about run today. were working late last night and | :52:05. | :52:09. | |
commentating on the opening ceremony and what time it were you | :52:09. | :52:15. | |
back this morning? It was about 11:30am, but it is a bit of a blur. | :52:15. | :52:21. | |
I reckon you will be in bed by 2:30pm. We were talking four years | :52:21. | :52:27. | |
ago about sharing the pagoda in Beijing. Remember doing the road | :52:27. | :52:33. | |
races. Happily it is still to be tested, but no rain so far in the | :52:33. | :52:38. | |
London Games. It is almost surreal, you pinch yourself when you look at | :52:38. | :52:43. | |
this, it is happening four years on. We have been here a few days | :52:43. | :52:48. | |
gearing up for today and to see all the people down there, the park is | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
finally full and it is being used for what it is here to do and the | :52:51. | :52:56. | |
atmosphere out there is lovely. The volunteers are doing their bit. | :52:56. | :53:04. | |
Crack on. To bed? Yes. anticipation is building on the | :53:04. | :53:10. | |
park, but also out on the streets of the capital as Team GB closes in | :53:10. | :53:16. | |
on that first medal of London 2012. After all the hours of training, | :53:16. | :53:21. | |
the strain of the tour and the expectation of a nation, can Mark | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
Cavendish deliver that elusive gold? He is the fastest finisher on | :53:27. | :53:35. | |
the planet. Cavendish is in the shake-up. It is | :53:35. | :53:40. | |
all about timing your effort to perfection here. The line is | :53:40. | :53:50. | |
getting nearer and nearer. Mark Cavendish is going to be the world | :53:50. | :54:00. | |
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Mark Cavendish is the world champion! There may be a team | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
competing, but it is all about one died. Just before I came here I | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
read a quote that the plant is just to get Mark Cavendish to victory | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
and it is set up for a Grand Slam finish. If you have been with us | :54:28. | :54:38. | |
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throughout the day, it has been far from easy. We are expecting the | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
riders to enter The Mall in about an hour-and-a-half's time. Team GB | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
were working so hard, all of them trying to drag Mark Cavendish up | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
Box Hill. We can see them working hard. The aim is to keep as much | :54:54. | :54:59. | |
energy in his legs as possible for the sprint back into London and in | :54:59. | :55:03. | |
the sprint down The Mall to help him pick up that gold medal. How | :55:03. | :55:08. | |
wonderful to see the shots. Box Hill is incredibly narrow and very | :55:08. | :55:14. | |
tight and it is about a 5% gradient. Nothing is stopping Great Britain | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
from working hard. You can see how hard they are working to keep Mark | :55:19. | :55:27. | |
Cavendish in the hunt. Tanni Grey- Thompson has been there for us all | :55:27. | :55:32. | |
day long. So far, it has seen about 20 seconds of absent today, but if | :55:32. | :55:38. | |
the peloton can carry on reeling in the leaders you are going to see a | :55:38. | :55:42. | |
thing is to remember down there this afternoon. We can feel the | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
tension building because everybody is flocking back for the finish. We | :55:47. | :55:52. | |
still have a break away at the front with 11 guys in there. We | :55:52. | :55:58. | |
have a chasing group of 11 and you have got Philippe Gilbert in there | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
who is trying to make a break to the leading group. You have got the | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
peloton behind still being led by the British guys. They are sticking | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
to their team tactics and not letting anyone get away. They are | :56:11. | :56:16. | |
not panicking. Everyone thinks this is the perfect position for them to | :56:16. | :56:23. | |
be end. We are seeing live shots. Give us an idea of the atmosphere. | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
The gap was very bake at one point and we were wondering if there was | :56:27. | :56:31. | |
a tactical error from Great Britain. Was it now is down there with | :56:31. | :56:37. | |
everybody watching? I was told not to panic if it was over six minutes | :56:37. | :56:44. | |
and it got over six minutes, and it is now less. There is still time | :56:44. | :56:49. | |
for them to put it in, but the spectators, everybody wants to seek | :56:49. | :56:57. | |
Team GB at the front and in control. We have not seen anything of Andre | :56:57. | :57:02. | |
Greipel or Peter Sagan, some of the threats. The British team have been | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
leading the peloton all the way and they have got the pressure of | :57:05. | :57:12. | |
making the decisions. A while ago Bradley winning its -- Bradley | :57:12. | :57:16. | |
Wiggins brought some food back to the team, but they must be feeling | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
some pressure. You were told not to panic if it was over six minutes | :57:20. | :57:26. | |
and it was bought a time, but it is less now. I feel much better, but I | :57:27. | :57:34. | |
would love to see Bradley Wiggins on the front of the whole lot. | :57:34. | :57:40. | |
can see Mark Cavendish at the front. We will come back to you a little | :57:40. | :57:47. | |
later on. If you cannot wait for that, thanks to the joys of having | :57:47. | :57:51. | |
two channelled of Olympic act and, you can see the race live on BBC | :57:51. | :57:57. | |
Three. If you are just getting to grips with how to enjoy the | :57:57. | :58:07. | |
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Olympics on the BBC, I do not blame you. The BBC is covering the 2012 | :58:10. | :58:15. | |
Olympics like never before. Whether it is on TV, online or on | :58:15. | :58:19. | |
the radio or on your mobile. We will make sure you never miss a | :58:19. | :58:23. | |
moment. On BBC One we will be broadcasting | :58:23. | :58:26. | |
from breakfast right through until 1am. | :58:26. | :58:31. | |
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11pm. We will be showing more sports on | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
the red button. The BBC website will cover up to 24 | :58:40. | :58:49. | |
live streams of every event. We will have every session of every | :58:49. | :58:54. | |
sport, every day, lied. You will find a page for every | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
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through our new mobile website. And you can listen to all the live | :59:07. | :59:15. | |
coverage on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Live Olympics extra. | :59:15. | :59:20. | |
If you have got a 3D television and you want to see the Games in 3D, | :59:20. | :59:27. | |
you can. We broadcast live on the BBC's h-t channel. | :59:27. | :59:37. | |
:59:37. | :59:42. | ||
London 2012 on the BBC. We have got He sounds like he always knows what | :59:42. | :59:50. | |
he's on about. Serena Williams will be back, and it would be great if | :59:50. | :59:55. | |
she could compete and make it a 2012 double. There is also a choice | :59:55. | :00:02. | |
of up to 24 different light streams, and you can see them there on the | :00:02. | :00:07. | |
website or via the red button. It is not a case of you shouldn't miss | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
a thing, more that you can't. After the cycling a bit later on, but if | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
you did miss some of the equestrian action this morning, here is Nicola | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
Wilson's routine, and she found that very late on but she would | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
:00:32. | :01:05. | ||
in terms of a horse being relaxed which is an interesting situation. | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
One of the top sires in world event in, bred by the owner. I know | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
Tracey Robinson, the dressage trainer, has been going up to | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
Yorkshire a lot to help Nicola and Opposition Buzz to get him more | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
:01:37. | :01:43. | ||
relaxed, and it seems to be working. mark. They cross the centre line. | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
He did look very accurate. He is getting a nice few sevens. Very | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
:02:00. | :02:08. | ||
consistently on the Sevens. Just Bars. Didn't quite sustain the hold, | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
but that is a good start. It will not be the best score we will see | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
from the British team, but is a very good start for this | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
combination. The best could be yet to come. This lovely girl from | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Yorkshire, a great favourite. A favourite with everybody. Such a | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
lovely character. And this combination is something to behold | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
across the country. If he could produce anything like his best | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
around here on the cross-country day, that will certainly set | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
Britain are. He is 15 years old now, He was great and gave me everything | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
he could. It was a mistake free test. We did not have any blunders. | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
I have to be delighted with how he has tried for me and I think he did | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
the best he could have done today. He did a solid performance. I felt | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
a bit excited on the last Holt's when everybody cheered and it is | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
lovely to have the support behind us. Lovely to have the support and | :03:11. | :03:21. | |
lovely to see a smile on Nicola's the tournament over the years, | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
sitting just in front of the Australians. And as we go a little | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
bit further down, Nicola sitting in 9th. Just to let you know that Mary | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
:03:41. | :03:41. | ||
King it will be going at 2:30pm in Zara Phillips begins at 10:15am. We | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
will be heading to the cycling and we have some boxing as well, but we | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
will take you to a bit of gymnastics, the men's team | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
qualification rounds and Britain were getting busy this morning and | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
impressing us. This is Daniel Purves. Just watch this. He is from | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Liverpool and picked up a bronze on the floor in the 2010 World | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
:04:12. | :04:16. | ||
Championships, and this is what he the rest of the action. A dramatic | :04:16. | :04:26. | |
:04:26. | :05:01. | ||
morning so let's join that and to the final. Someone else with a | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
chance is Thomas. Look at the height on that. A lovely | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
:05:16. | :05:24. | ||
sharp through the flick and accelerating across the floor. What | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
a performance so far. A very precise on the landings. And the | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
:05:41. | :06:14. | ||
Nice control. A good, low position strong, very confident. Great stuff | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
on the floor. This is something else! The finest gymnastics that | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
Great Britain have ever produced. really special performance from | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
Christine Thomas. He has been such a steady performance for the | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
British team -- Kristian Thomas. He is very tall, so he has to choose | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
his skills very carefully on the floor. They called gymnast can look | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
so impressive -- 8 Paul gymnast can look so impressive because of the | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
bigger heights they get. It is a big ask because the for his small | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
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to them, but he tucked that double a radium -- double Arabian in. | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
15.366, the third-highest score we have seen on the floor this morning. | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, this is Great Britain's Lewis Smith. | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
Pommel horse qualification. Come on! There are no medals in this | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
round, but this is where it can all be lost. Very confident with the | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
first handstand. Another one coming up. Very, very smooth. And he has | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
worked so hard on his style. Those legs are locked together and the | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
swing is nice. The rhythm is good. The difficulty will be down | :07:49. | :07:58. | |
slightly, but the style is good. He is going well. A triple Russian. | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
Three at spins and now he is into the travel forward. On his way back, | :08:03. | :08:13. | |
:08:13. | :08:13. | ||
and this looks very good indeed. What a concert performance! That | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
well deserves a final placing. He will be absolutely chuffed. Olympic | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
bronze medallist, and he now has the chance for a another Olympic | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
:08:34. | :08:39. | ||
If he could not perform today, all of the talk was of nothing, because | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
today's way you make -- because today he's way you make the final. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
-- today he's where you make the final. The legs were lovely and | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
tied together. The difficulty might be slightly down, but the | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
:09:09. | :09:09. | ||
performance is definitely up. the dismount, just hanging on for a | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
little bit more difficulty. He nails the landing. And look at | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
their relief in his face. That is sheer relief. And now a little bit | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
of emotion. Just over come up with the support and the relief in what | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
he has achieved. 15.8, Smith is in the Olympic bomb or Horse Final. | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
And he has a chance to go better than the bronze he got in Beijing - | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
:09:46. | :09:47. | ||
Mitch said it perfectly, wonderful stuff. The gymnast, in tears, so | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
much emotion and gymnastics were wonderful in Beijing for the men, | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
and they are looking to do the same thing. That performance from Luis | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
was remarkable, but not only that, Great Britain finished above China. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
In 2011 when China were crowned world champions, Britain did not | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
even make the final. That is how impressive the performance was | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
today. Will it be enough to win a medal? We will find out later. Time | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
for some boxing. It is the largest competition venue being used for | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
the games, on the banks of the Thames, hosting seven Olympic | :10:22. | :10:31. | |
sports. But today, let's focus on the fighters. It is Irish | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
bantamweight fighter Jonjo Nevin aged just 18. And now he wants to | :10:37. | :10:47. | |
:10:47. | :10:48. | ||
be challenging for a medal. Let's very interesting bantamweight | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
contest. The most experienced Olympic competition member of the | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
Irish side, Jonjo Nevin, the 30 three-year-old from central island. | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
-- the 20 three-year-old. His opponent is also 23. The first | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
Danish boxer to get into the Olympics since Atlanta in 1996. | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Jonjo Nevin got through having got a bronze medal in the world | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
championships back in Azerbaijan a year to go -- a year ago, when he | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
lost narrowly on a countback after 12 rounds against Luke Campbell | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
from Great Britain. Not getting it all his own way, but Nevin is | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
taking his time. Solid, dependable competitor, Nevin. I think he is | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
boxing well on the back foot and keeping his range and boxing the | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
distances very well. He's bringing his opponents on to have no punches. | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
The Danish boxing is on the front foot, orthodox and he can be | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
erratic and the Open when he comes forward. That right hand seems to | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
be finding the right distance. years ago he lost in the opening | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
contest against the Nigerian and then lost 9-2 against the excellent | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Mongolian, and that was the closest contest that the Mongolian had to | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
endure on his way to the gold medal. Nevin has really learn from that. | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
Since then, a couple of bronze medals. A good, solid right hand | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
from the Irishman, taking his time. If you're wondering what has | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
happened to the running scores on the screen, they don't exist any | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
more. But at the end of the round the scores will be coming up. Five | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
judges at ringside. They have red and blue keypads to press if they | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
think a man has landed a clean punch on the target area. This time | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
the top and bottom scores are discounted. The computer works it | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
out, you don't have to have a degree in matt-black -- mathematics. | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
But nothing comes up any more, so you have to wait and see what | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
happens at the end of the round. It is getting us back to the old days. | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
Good work here, and he is counter- attacking and waiting for his | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
opponent are coming into punching range, then stepping in and beating | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
him to the punch. Very well timed boxing from Nevin. The timing is | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
very good. At the moment he is very much winning this round. Good, | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
economical style. And he is landing accurately. A good effort at the | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
body. He got caught and he must not leave that she now. But a good | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
finish in the end by the Irishman - - you must not leave it that she no | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
:13:54. | :13:58. | ||
doubt. A packed house here. 10,000 people. Not a seat to be had. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
good work here from Nevin. Leading well with the right hand. Towards | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
the end of the round the Danish boxer came back with a good shot, | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
just reminding Nevin he is still in the contest, but he dominated with | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
the one to combination. Well-timed boxing from Nevin, and a clear | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
:14:27. | :14:36. | ||
winner in that round. He does have five men as boxers and one female | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
boxer. The five-time gold champion. But at the moment it is all eyes on | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
:14:52. | :15:07. | ||
handles the ring space very well indeed. He boxes from the centre of | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
the ring and he boxes in the spaces. Rarely do you see him back on the | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
ropes because he knows that is where his opponents can get to him. | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
:15:28. | :15:28. | ||
So he controls centering. A good left again. The referee seems to | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
think he hit with the open part of the glove. Stop, brake and box. | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
:15:46. | :15:57. | ||
Everything else is done by the it Uzbekistan and then had a very | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
narrow defeat to Luke Campbell. problem Dennis Ceylan has got is | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
that his feet are far too slow. He has got to start pushing Nevin back | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
onto the ropes. He is too flat footed. He is coming forward and he | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
is easy to hit. And he has got a low left hand, and that is why he | :16:17. | :16:26. | |
keeps walking on to the right hand. Nevin probably needs to be tested a | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
little bit more, but that will come as this tournament unfolds in this | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
very competitive division. I think this is the perfect contest to | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
break into the tournament with. This is starting to become a target | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
practice. That is no disrespect to Dennis Ceylan. He is being | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
outgunned and there is better quality coming from the Irishman. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
For the very first time in an Olympic boxing tournament we have | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
men who are seeded. The number one goes to the top and the numbered | :17:03. | :17:13. | |
:17:13. | :17:26. | ||
of Nevin. I still think he is boxing within himself. Definitely | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
:17:36. | :17:36. | ||
and those body shots are starting to hurt his opponent. I think Nevin | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
:17:46. | :17:49. | ||
might be capable of winning this contest with -- within the distance. | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
Another good round and he has opened up a gap. 10,000 people can | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
see the big screen. It is 13-4 to the Irishman. That was a very good | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
second round. Super work from Nevin with that right hand. Look how he | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
got out of the way of that left hook. Then he switches downstairs | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
and then back upstairs. Great boxing from Nevin in this round and | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
he upped the tempo a little bit. Dennis Ceylan has got no answer to | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
those punches. It is only when you look at slow-motion like that, | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
because the action is done in double quick time, that you realise | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
:18:49. | :19:07. | ||
second Olympic Games, John Joe Nevin. His opponent is from Denmark. | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
It is the accuracy that is causing all the problems for the Dane. | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
pace has suited Nevin and he has dictated it. I liked the way he | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
moves around his opponent, rather than moving back and going on to | :19:22. | :19:32. | |
:19:32. | :19:55. | ||
the ropes. It is great ring craft apart. The quality work has | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
definitely come from him. Too much for the referee. The referee said | :20:01. | :20:10. | |
that was a low blow. The vests have to be tucked well in so the | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
waistband is visible to give the referee an idea whether the blow is | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
legal or illegal. If it goes south of the border and is illegal, it | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
:20:30. | :20:45. | ||
straight lines, no sidesteps. Boxing with very flat feet and | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
standing in front of his opponent. Irish boxers down the years have | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
done their country proud. They have won more medals in this sport than | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
:21:09. | :21:36. | ||
really turned it on in the second and opened up a huge gap. Now he | :21:36. | :21:46. | |
:21:46. | :21:54. | ||
is hugely important. He did that four years ago in Beijing. There is | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
no doubt about who won that one. That is a great boost for the Auris | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
team. Jo Ward lost his appeal a couple of days ago. The Olympic | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
circuit will be poorer without Jo Ward. No doubt who was dominating | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
the contest all the way through. Quality work throughout the contest, | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
especially the second and third round. That will settle the nerves | :22:25. | :22:35. | |
:22:35. | :22:39. | ||
for the whole Irish team. A good display. He was cool all the way | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
through, John Joe Nevin. Now it is a matter of the margin. He may well | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
have got himself past the 20 mark. A considerable haircut he has got | :22:55. | :23:05. | |
:23:05. | :23:07. | ||
This is a bit like the old days. In the previous system when the scores | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
came up on the screens, you would have known who had one. It adds to | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
the whole thing. It adds to the atmosphere. Ladies and gentlemen, | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
:23:32. | :23:35. | ||
the winner with a score of 21-6, in the red corner, John Joe Nevin. | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
:23:45. | :23:45. | ||
gets past the 20 Mark, the first boxer to do so far. A good | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
performance by John Joe never end. 21-6 over his opponent from Denmark. | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
A good start by the Irish. enjoyed that dramatic pause before | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
the RIM went up in the air. You can see how in control he was in that | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
about. His second taste of Olympic Games and just like in Beijing he | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
wins his opening round. The boxing continues on the red button with | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
Britain's Anthony Ogogo. He is a real pinup boy for boxing. He is on | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
in half-an-hour on BBC Three. Now we are turning our attention to the | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
men's road race. Four years ago Mark Cavendish was devastated to | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
leave Beijing without a medal. Can you believe the biggest name in | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
cycling, you either winner of the Tour de France? Bigger than | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
Cavendish? A big part of spending his confidence and he has got | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
bucket loads of it. He tastes victory and it is sweet. He is an | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
all or nothing kind of guy and it is something I strive to be. | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
raised his incredibly well and whether you and I would see a mass | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
of bodies in a peloton, he just sees that the gaps. He is genius | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
and ability is to stay completely rational and Ice Cold in what is | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
the most hectic and uncontrollable murmured in cycling. People see the | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
last 500m of a state, but you have had to ride for five hours to get | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
to that point and he is able to unleash that amazing energy at the | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
end. I would not even be at the finish. Mark Cavendish wins for the | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
4th year running. It is making calculators, making decisions in an | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
instant, it is as close to instinct as you can get from learning to | :25:54. | :26:02. | |
ride a bicycle. Somehow he sees everything happening in slow motion. | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
He sees things happen that other people are not seeing, making | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
decisions that other people are panicking about. He is the only guy | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
who is not losing his cool. But the moment he crosses that finishing | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
line it all comes out at once. Cavendish has won the world title | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
for Great Britain. To represent my country and to beat in the team, to | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
do it for work your country and not for at a wage, it is a big, big | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
thing. To us he is just Mark and even now in the last few days you | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
can see he is getting jittery and excited and he is approaching the | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
thing he has been looking at for the last few months and we have to | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
calm him down. He is going through the full spectrum, he makes himself | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
angry, nervous, confident. He is calm one moment and terrified the | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
next. He is a wonderful personality. He is super excited, he is getting | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
his shoes ready and the glasses and he is ready to go and he is as fit | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
as I have ever seen him. He was complaining on the road today that | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
we were going too hard. I said, it is your fault, you asked us to be | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
here. We have got patriotic guys in the team, they really want to do | :27:29. | :27:37. | |
this. We were out training and I was thinking, this is a Dream Team. | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
It is a big thing to have guys who can win in their own right | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
dedicating themselves to a cause. I cannot let the guys down, I cannot | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
let the team down, that is it, that is the biggest thing. | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
It is now time for Mark and Team GB to deliver it. Let's go live to the | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
streets of Surrey for an hour of cycling. It might just deliver the | :28:02. | :28:09. | |
first medal of the 2012 Games. We are with Stuart Broad man and Chris | :28:09. | :28:19. | |
:28:19. | :28:25. | ||
group. One man is ahead, Philippe Gilbert, the Belgian. But I think | :28:25. | :28:35. | |
he has gone too early. The first group went away very early on and | :28:35. | :28:41. | |
established lead of almost six minutes. Then they were joined by a | :28:41. | :28:51. | |
:28:51. | :28:53. | ||
chasing group of 12. That contained a huge amount of talent. Then they | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
came together and the residue of that group has gone through and one | :28:57. | :29:03. | |
man is ahead of them and that is Philippe Gilbert. They are on the | :29:03. | :29:10. | |
final ascent of Box Hill, so it is far too long for him to stay away. | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
But then used his Great Britain have been in control throughout and | :29:13. | :29:19. | |
they have never panic. They have kept the tempo Hythe. They have | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
kept the rhythm up. Nobody of danger has got away and it means | :29:24. | :29:32. | |
that Mark Cavendish has got good legs and it is all building nicely | :29:32. | :29:42. | |
:29:42. | :29:47. | ||
for the game-plan of delivering him plan could not have gone better for | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
the Great Britain team. They have let the group's goal weight on the | :29:51. | :29:59. | |
climbing, ridden together, nursing Mark Cavendish. They have done a | :29:59. | :30:05. | |
fantastic job. And it looks like the run into London, just 50 | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
kilometres of, they will be able to bring the race under control. | :30:10. | :30:17. | |
Hopefully for Mark Cavendish they will have a sprint. The head of the | :30:17. | :30:27. | |
:30:27. | :30:29. | ||
breakaway group which is chasing down Gilbert. Still in there is | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
O'Grady. We have an attack forming here. This is exactly what we | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
expected on the final ascent of Box Hill. The riders will try to jump | :30:39. | :30:46. | |
clear between them and the peloton being led by the Great Britain team. | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
About 20 guys ahead of them, so they are just bridging between the | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
groups. It is quite difficult for them to know what to do. You can | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
see the British team look like they are ignoring the rest of the | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
peloton. They have one script, one plan, Riding for Mark Cavendish. | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
They are letting all of these riders go and once they get over | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
the top of the climb they will drive back towards London to try to | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
pull everything back together. well-drilled unit, the British team, | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
they have never panicked or tried to jump clear. They have just | :31:18. | :31:24. | |
relentlessly kept the tempo up as we go back to the leading rider, | :31:24. | :31:30. | |
and BT's Philippe Gilbert, getting a tremendous ovation. He is a | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
talented rider with a list of classic victories to his credit. | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
There were some doubts about him riding after he took a heavy tumble | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
in the Tour de France, but fortunately nothing was broken, | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
although he heavily bruised his shoulder. Gilbert is having a crack. | :31:47. | :31:53. | |
Denmark at the front of what is left of the group. They are driving | :31:53. | :31:59. | |
around heart. I am sure the days of the group are numbered. Just 43 | :31:59. | :32:05. | |
seconds behind Philippe Gilbert, and soon we will see the peloton | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
coming into view. It will not be the Great Britain team at the head | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
of the peloton, it will be those few people who have been attacking | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
on the climb and then the British team will drive hard to pull it | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
back together. This is literally as they planned the race. The group | :32:21. | :32:31. | |
:32:31. | :32:31. | ||
trying to chase Gill but down, who has left the group -- Gilbert. | :32:31. | :32:38. | |
There are some talented riders and O'Grady looked like he took a hand | :32:38. | :32:45. | |
sling. That is one minute and 21 seconds, the gap. So I think the | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
British team do have this under control. They have one hour of | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
racing, a little more than that to go. I think they can control it for | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
that. They must be very confident. Mark Cavendish must be relieved he | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
has passed those nine Tests and he can look forward to the sprint | :33:01. | :33:07. | |
finish. It is looking very good indeed. The game plan is working | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
well. Just to reiterate the earlier comment, they have never faltered | :33:11. | :33:17. | |
and panicked, so great Britain working with this one aim, to | :33:17. | :33:26. | |
deliver the Express to the mal -- were more. Gilbert making a real | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
feast of this. He did this in 2010 when the championships took place | :33:30. | :33:35. | |
in Belgium. The Belgian flags supporting him. He went off with | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
about 10 miles to go but faded within a kilometre or of the line. | :33:39. | :33:44. | |
This is classic Gilbert. But he has gone far too early. Has he read the | :33:44. | :33:50. | |
manual? I think he was hoping someone else would come along with | :33:50. | :33:56. | |
him. A group of 22 is far too big for them to stay away. He thought | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
he would attack early and maybe bring the group down to a smaller | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
number that would work well together. Gilbert, the man of the | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
moment, taking the race to the rest of them. There is Timothy Duggan, | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
the national champion with the USA and he has been in the thick of the | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
action. He was in the little group that developed after 20 kilometres | :34:15. | :34:22. | |
and built up the lead of six minutes. Berkovic, Menchov, | :34:22. | :34:28. | |
Kristoff, to or maim some of the group. There are still some of them. | :34:28. | :34:38. | |
:34:38. | :34:40. | ||
Bracken which is still there -- here, but there are still one or | :34:40. | :34:50. | |
:34:50. | :34:52. | ||
two smart operators not figuring yet. The biggest danger for Mark | :34:52. | :34:55. | |
Cavendish is the German at the finish. He did beat him in the | :34:55. | :35:00. | |
sprint at the Tour de France, so that is the person that will be | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
more worrying for the British team. But it could also work for them. | :35:04. | :35:13. | |
The Germans have not really contributed to the chase. The | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
German team have still got some bodies to use in the final. Mark | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
Cavendish might be up to make use of that. A big injection of pace at | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
the front. Spain beginning to turn the screw, or is in Holland? Yes, | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
Holland having a crack. One or two other sprinters, Tom Bowman, we | :35:31. | :35:39. | |
haven't seen anything of him, and there are other names to conjure | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
with when it comes to the spring. There will be a few names in play | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
but there is only one we think can win this if it comes down to a | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
bunch sprint, and that is obviously what the British team thing. Mark | :35:51. | :35:57. | |
Cavendish waiting, and how to wait till he can do his thing and then | :35:57. | :36:07. | |
:36:07. | :36:07. | ||
congratulate the team for the work they have done to this point. | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
are getting very little information in the time splits, and it is just | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
our memory being tested here really at the moment but we are looking at | :36:15. | :36:19. | |
this incredible effort by Philippe Gill but who has now totally | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
committed himself -- Philippe Gilbert. If he fails, he will have | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
to go to the back of the peloton because he will have nothing left | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
in his legs. If you look at the amount of action, he has been | :36:32. | :36:37. | |
holding them over the last lap of the course, one minute and 20 | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
seconds over the peloton which is quite something, but with an hour | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
left to right on flat roads, which are great roads or chasing, that is | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
too much to us from one rider alone. You are right, but he is attacking | :36:51. | :36:59. | |
the task with unbridled passion. I mentioned earlier, but let me tell | :36:59. | :37:06. | |
you, the last medal won by a Belgian in the Olympic games came | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
in the searing Athenian of the sun down on the tough circuit in Athens. | :37:11. | :37:18. | |
Their last gold medal, you have to go a long way back. It was 1952, in | :37:18. | :37:28. | |
:37:28. | :37:30. | ||
Helsinki. The attacking these coming thick and fast behind. | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
Everybody psychologically things after getting to just one hour left | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
there is not a lot of time left. They really are coming thick and | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
fast. This is where Great Britain have to be extra vigilant and look | :37:43. | :37:48. | |
for the moves and stamp them out. It is HS on wheels scenario. | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
Somebody makes a move, and you have to make a move to counter at -- it | :37:52. | :38:02. | |
he's a chess on wheels. They have come off the elbow of the Duke of | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
Wellington Place in to constitution Hill, that is where Cavendish needs | :38:05. | :38:14. | |
to be there before he relaunches his sprint. A lot of activity from | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
the group behind, but surely it is all in vain. My eye is drawn back | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
down the road to see what is happening behind and how close is | :38:22. | :38:27. | |
the peloton from catching the group. Italy has decided that they will | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
have to do something with this. They have spent a lot of energy | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
getting the men into the group, so they will have to make the most of | :38:33. | :38:41. | |
it. Now they are driving to what purpose, I'm not sure. If you are | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
just turning on to watch the concluding stages, and you are a | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
cycling fan, you are probably asking, Italy? They have not wound | :38:50. | :38:54. | |
up in their famous blue colours, they are in their new car lot of | :38:54. | :38:59. | |
weight and I do not nullify like it or not -- then you come up of white | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
and I do not know if I like that or not. -- their new colour up of | :39:04. | :39:12. | |
white. It is Italy not happy with the development of Gilbert been | :39:12. | :39:18. | |
clear. They have the good sprinter who chased Cavendish home in the | :39:18. | :39:26. | |
test event and Cavendish was held to one it will buy them. -- one | :39:26. | :39:36. | |
of the Italians as they start to come through. But look at Gilbert. | :39:36. | :39:43. | |
He is really driving on for this one. That is a fully committed bike | :39:43. | :39:49. | |
rider, isn't it? Absolutely everything here. We have not really | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
seen him today, but that could be the case with any winner of this | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
race. We probably will not have even seen their face, because it is | :39:57. | :40:00. | |
all about the final hour and the positioning and spotting an | :40:00. | :40:10. | |
:40:10. | :40:43. | ||
the mix, the bronze medallist from Beijing, he is another man to look | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
out for at the finish. Italy of a country that has had the most | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
victories in this event. -- Italy are the country. They have five | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
gold medal victories to their credit. Russia and France have | :40:57. | :41:03. | |
celebrated two wins each. We are not going to get a situation like | :41:03. | :41:09. | |
the one at the end of the race in Rome, in 1960, when the Russian | :41:09. | :41:16. | |
beat the Italian. They had to sprint twice, and then they had to | :41:16. | :41:21. | |
do another lap and sprint again, but it was the same result. They | :41:21. | :41:28. | |
certainly would not like that. Look at this determination on the face | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
of the Norwegian trying to get away. And it is not the man I thought I | :41:31. | :41:41. | |
:41:41. | :41:43. | ||
would see. The real man for Norway has got to be Hagen. We have not | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
seen much of him, but he was in great shape last week in the Tour | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
de France. He can release print well, so we could see him trying to | :41:51. | :41:57. | |
get into move -- he can really sprint well. There will be a lot of | :41:57. | :42:02. | |
people doing it. It might mean that there is the potential to succeed. | :42:02. | :42:06. | |
But failing that, if he goes down to the final sprint, he has a good | :42:06. | :42:11. | |
possibility of getting a medal. Gilbert has been caught. The race | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
seems to be getting itself together. They are starting to work, but I | :42:17. | :42:23. | |
think it will be a bit late. Spain all their riding as a group. | :42:23. | :42:32. | |
Castroviejo Nicolas has been away all day. I think they're big strong | :42:32. | :42:38. | |
man today has got to be Sanchez, the stage winner in the Tour de | :42:38. | :42:42. | |
France. He is not a big sprinter but if he can establish a gap in a | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
good time trial will take a lot of pulling back. I would have thought | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
Sanchez would have been a good bet on the circuit, but now we are off | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
it I'm not so sure. They are an excellent position though now. | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
Three men, meaning they have at least one who can do some work. | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
They really are motoring down this flat road as they head towards | :43:04. | :43:10. | |
London. Where are the Great Britain team? They are still on the nose of | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
the chasers, where they have been all day. That is quite a gap. Look | :43:16. | :43:21. | |
at this. Still going back, further. There we are. What would you say | :43:21. | :43:26. | |
the time gap is? I think it is deceptive because they are moving | :43:26. | :43:31. | |
so fast that the gaps are bigger for the same amount of time. | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
Reaching speeds of 55 kilometres per hour, which means they will be | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
with us in about 50 minutes time if they carried on with that average. | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
The wind is behind them, so it is feasible that they could average | :43:43. | :43:53. | |
:43:53. | :43:57. | ||
those kinds of speeds and move a group. Everybody but something to | :43:57. | :44:05. | |
play for. -- with something to play for. A lot of passengers in the | :44:05. | :44:15. | |
:44:15. | :44:32. | ||
group, but some Major players as that Gilbert has made today and he | :44:32. | :44:39. | |
has not profited from either. As we look down the field, at the head, | :44:39. | :44:47. | |
Great Britain ploughing along at the front. Where is Mark Cavendish? | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
He is back one or two wheels. He needs to get a bit more shelter and | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
make the most of the work that his team is doing for him. We will see | :44:56. | :45:01. | |
how much easier it is when it is 10 riders back, literally freewheeling | :45:01. | :45:07. | |
at the front, and riding as hard as they can. It is going to be a fast | :45:07. | :45:17. | |
:45:17. | :45:39. | ||
run in it now. Five hours of racing is Bradley Wiggins on the front. | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
You can see the bunching of the peloton and then pushing over the | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
top. They are getting so close now they really do need to start | :45:49. | :45:55. | |
reeling in the group. They have not got long to reach that gap. It | :45:55. | :46:03. | |
looked like it was fragmenting. They are a dangerous group to let | :46:03. | :46:13. | |
:46:13. | :46:18. | ||
stay away. The pressure is being applied and it is hurting. We have | :46:18. | :46:23. | |
about 24 miles of racing left. That is less than an hour before we | :46:23. | :46:29. | |
crown the Olympic gold medallist in London. The 30th Olympiad taking | :46:29. | :46:36. | |
place. Bradley Wiggins is on the front, but they have to work now | :46:36. | :46:41. | |
and use up the effort. They wanted to save it for the sprint, but the | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
group further up the road is way too dangerous and they need to get | :46:45. | :46:50. | |
on top of it as quickly as possible and get fresh light breathe into it. | :46:50. | :46:56. | |
They have to bring it back now. traditional flick of the elbow from | :46:56. | :47:02. | |
Wiggins. He is saying, I have done my turn and the next rider needs to | :47:03. | :47:10. | |
come through. We have not seen Fabian Cancellara at all to date. | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
This is why, he has been waiting for the opportunity. He waited | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
until that final climb and he managed to get across to this group | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
and that is what is making the difference. They are not worried | :47:22. | :47:28. | |
about the amount of passengers in this group. Sanchez is also in this | :47:28. | :47:34. | |
group. Yes, he is a dangerous man, but Fabian Cancellara is worrying | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
me. He will be happy with the development. It is a big group and | :47:38. | :47:43. | |
it is a massive split. It changes think dramatically, and it is | :47:44. | :47:49. | |
frustrating we are not getting any time differences. Despite the size | :47:49. | :47:54. | |
of his group, it is about the key names in there. Those are the teams | :47:54. | :47:59. | |
that are doing all of the driving. If the Germans do not help the | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
British team, they are not going to be there for them. They really need | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
to start to commit and help the British steam. This is by no means | :48:08. | :48:13. | |
a done deal. The it is a dangerous mood and the Great Britain team | :48:13. | :48:18. | |
will be aware of this. Whether they are aware of the composition of the | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
group and whether they know that Fabian Cancellara is in there, I do | :48:21. | :48:29. | |
not know. It is going to become dangerous. It is not good for | :48:30. | :48:35. | |
Germany, but it is not good for at Mark Cavendish and Great Britain. | :48:35. | :48:42. | |
Where is Tom Boonen? I have not seen him in the race. Now they are | :48:43. | :48:45. | |
getting a hand. It is Germany and Great Britain pulling the field | :48:46. | :48:53. | |
along. Germany is committing one rider at the time and they are | :48:53. | :48:57. | |
playing a dangerous game. They should be pushing all of their | :48:58. | :49:07. | |
:49:08. | :49:14. | ||
troops behind him. There is Mark Cavendish touched on the wheel. | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
That is the kind of situation you see all that time in the Tour de | :49:18. | :49:28. | |
:49:28. | :49:29. | ||
France. The lead is round about 30 seconds. Now it comes up on the | :49:29. | :49:34. | |
screen and it is 57 seconds and there is a group of 32 in the front. | :49:34. | :49:40. | |
It really is a big group. Let's hope the British team have | :49:40. | :49:44. | |
calculated this right. It really is a nail-biting last three-quarters | :49:44. | :49:50. | |
of an hour. We are not getting any information and we are not being | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
told the position and the composition of the group on the | :49:53. | :49:59. | |
computer. We are just hearing the odd name here and there, but we | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
know Fabian Cancellara is in there. There is Tom Boonen. He is happy. | :50:05. | :50:10. | |
The Germans are lining up as well. They are perfectly happy to let the | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
British team do the work. I am not convinced with a gap of nearly a | :50:15. | :50:20. | |
minute, I think it is a dangerous game. They really need to start | :50:20. | :50:26. | |
driving, but these are experienced professionals. Ian Stannard is | :50:26. | :50:31. | |
doing the work now and we have to trust in their ability to judge the | :50:31. | :50:38. | |
gap, but it is nerve-racking to watch. One minute, it is confirmed | :50:38. | :50:45. | |
34 kilometres to go. Hopefully we will get some shots of the front | :50:45. | :50:51. | |
group so we can confirm the danger men. We know Fabian Cancellara is | :50:51. | :50:57. | |
in this group, the silver medal- winner from Beijing. Spartacus is | :50:58. | :51:04. | |
his nickname. He pulled out of the Tour de France after just over a | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
week because his wife gave birth to their second child. But he has been | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
keeping his form in perfect condition. I make it 42 minutes of | :51:16. | :51:21. | |
racing left in this Olympic men's road race before the gold medal is | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
settled. It really is a nail-biter with this group having a minute's | :51:26. | :51:31. | |
advantage. The teams have got their work cut out if they want to bring | :51:31. | :51:37. | |
this back together. The do not have Samuel Sanchez here because of | :51:37. | :51:46. | |
injury, but they have got three riders in this front group. It is | :51:46. | :51:56. | |
:51:56. | :52:00. | ||
pretty good indeed. At the moment Great Britain are on the back foot. | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
Those riders are all good sprinters, but they are not the best sprinters, | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
but the best sprinters are a minute behind and that would be a good | :52:08. | :52:18. | |
:52:18. | :52:35. | ||
specialist at the front is powering his way on. He is trying to pull | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
the group back. But this group is being driven by Spain and they have | :52:40. | :52:46. | |
got a good at move on. The Spanish and the Swiss know they have got an | :52:46. | :52:55. | |
opportunity. They fought for it on that climb. There is a huge amount | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
of hangers on. They may not be the very best riders on paper, but they | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
have had a free ride all the way into London and they have had an | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
opportunity here and they may be able to use it by attacking in the | :53:09. | :53:14. | |
final five or 10 kilometres. The speed with which the Spanish are | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
driving that group at the moment, it is hard to think that anybody | :53:18. | :53:24. | |
can be attacking them. They are on towards Hampton court way and then | :53:24. | :53:31. | |
they will swing right up to Queen's Road. They are almost sniffing at | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
the finish. This is a mood of immense proportions. This is very | :53:37. | :53:44. | |
important and Spain are absolutely spot-on. They are fully committed. | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
Nobody it's trying to wave anybody else on. They are committed to the | :53:50. | :53:57. | |
work. If they let the speed drop for a minute, there are others | :53:57. | :54:07. | |
:54:07. | :54:10. | ||
behind them. One more try to have a go off the front. After all the | :54:10. | :54:16. | |
hard work of Great Britain, are they now going to lose out? I find | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
that really hard to believe. They know what they are doing and they | :54:19. | :54:24. | |
do this as a day-job all the time. They get a feel for it and they | :54:24. | :54:31. | |
know that time gaps and they know what it will take to bring a break | :54:31. | :54:41. | |
:54:41. | :54:45. | ||
back. But this looks dangerous to me. By Verdi had a podium finish in | :54:45. | :54:55. | |
:54:55. | :55:00. | ||
the Tour de France. Leon Sanchez with very good form, from Spain. | :55:00. | :55:10. | |
:55:10. | :55:26. | ||
There are a lot of people driving is very dangerous for the British | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
team after all the hard work they have done. They are totally | :55:30. | :55:36. | |
committed on the front. They know it is the Olympic Games. This is | :55:36. | :55:41. | |
the responsibility of Ian Stannard. He is driving as fast as he cancels | :55:41. | :55:47. | |
stock he will peel off after his work is done, but he is trying | :55:47. | :55:57. | |
:55:57. | :55:58. | ||
single-handedly to pull this break pack away. Every little paws and | :55:58. | :56:08. | |
:56:08. | :56:24. | ||
Ian Stannard claws back a second or There is not much time to go now. | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
They need some help. Leaving Ian Stannard on the front it might not | :56:29. | :56:39. | |
:56:39. | :56:43. | ||
be enough. That Australian is there as well. We are getting no numbers | :56:44. | :56:51. | |
or feet or captions. Is that Matthew Goss? I think it is Stuart | :56:51. | :56:59. | |
O'Grady. He is still in the next, he has been in it all day. He has | :56:59. | :57:04. | |
done plenty just to be in this position in the race. It shows you | :57:04. | :57:10. | |
how you can read a race. He is not the peak strength he had before. | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
But he has got the experience and he knows how to be in the right | :57:15. | :57:25. | |
:57:25. | :57:29. | ||
place. The wells have we got? That is Philippe Gilbert. Surely he has | :57:29. | :57:39. | |
:57:39. | :57:58. | ||
got to have had his form dented by They are ringing at their loudest | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
because this is very, very dangerous for Great Britain. They | :58:02. | :58:07. | |
are running out of distance. They realise it and they are on the | :58:07. | :58:12. | |
front. They have got to find something here. They could do with | :58:12. | :58:17. | |
some allies to come through and help with the work. Mark | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
Cavendish's gold medal chances are slipping away on the approach to | :58:20. | :58:26. | |
the finish. This is Bradley Wiggins. This is earlier than they would | :58:26. | :58:31. | |
have wanted to be used, but they have got to do the job. His time- | :58:32. | :58:37. | |
trial ability is going to be tested to the fault. The German team are | :58:37. | :58:42. | |
starting to contribute now, but it might be too late. They are going | :58:42. | :58:47. | |
to have to drive flat out now. You have got to be there for the sprint | :58:47. | :58:54. | |
in the first place. You certainly have. Just look at the way that | :58:54. | :59:01. | |
long, thin line has formed. The crowd are loving it. They are | :59:01. | :59:05. | |
getting the British team as much support as they can, but is it | :59:05. | :59:15. | |
:59:15. | :59:18. | ||
Froome, actually. I'm surprised we haven't seen more work from him. | :59:18. | :59:23. | |
He's decided that it bore the day. A generous round of applause at the | :59:23. | :59:29. | |
finishing straight. It is job done for Chris Froome but he's a strong | :59:29. | :59:34. | |
man to lose. We are down to three men now to help Mark Cavendish. | :59:34. | :59:39. | |
Only three riders to help him now and look up the pace at the front. | :59:39. | :59:43. | |
Switzerland right at the front, beginning to raise the tempo. | :59:43. | :59:50. | |
have got a great opportunity, with a group like this, Fabien | :59:50. | :59:58. | |
Cantillaro, he can sprint well. We are starting to see some fractures | :59:58. | :00:02. | |
in this group. They are starting to think about the finish. It could be | :00:02. | :00:12. | |
:00:12. | :00:23. | ||
are the favourites. Slipping back into the group now. It is there one | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
minute now, Chris. This is very, very bad. Great Britain are, with | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
one rider down, from the chasing squad. He wants to save his legs | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
for the sprint, Chris Froome, so there is only three men now to help | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Mark Cavendish. They have to lay down now. It's all about closing | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
:00:55. | :01:22. | ||
this gap. It's a quality group. No solid sprinter. They all have a | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
chance. He will be after a medal as well. I don't think he's got quite | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
the speed. Philip Gill but I feel sure he won't be better spent after | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
the efforts he has made in this race -- Philip Gilbert. I remember | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
him in Sydney. They realise the danger and are getting involved now. | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
It really is close now. They are not making any inroads and indeed | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
every metre of road to tried to close the gap. Bradley Wiggins | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
involved in the chase now. We thought he might stop and save his | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
legs for the time trial but has laid it all down for Mark Cavendish, | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
for this road race. Let's hope it's a sacrifice which is not in vain. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Such a blistering pace that front, and nobody is coming through and | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
they have got to come through and start working out. Belgium are | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
there but they don't need to contribute. They will look after | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
the interests of the Belgians who are clear. The gap is a 57 seconds, | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
so it has come down a little bit. It was just over one minute, but | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
that's not enough. They will start to mess around at the front as they | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
:02:54. | :02:57. | ||
go for the victory. Over 30 riders, 33, as our camera pans out, we're | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
almost praying our time checks are correct because that's a big, big | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
gap with less than 20 kilometres left to raise now. They go past | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Hampton Court. A glorious shot at Hampton Court Palace, the scene of | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
the action for the men's and women's time-trial next Wednesday. | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
Spain here doing the driving. 55 seconds, it has come back another | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
three seconds, so they are nibbling away all the time. 23 kilometres to | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
go. They have got a 3.5 Extra: it has to try to close this gap. It | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
really is going to be difficult. As they start to think about attacking, | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
but will drop her speed but their speed and give an opportunity to | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
the riders behind to close up. A sizable gap but there were | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
relatively small distance remaining. The Russian is also in this group, | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
the bronze medal winner in Beijing. He's very powerful in the finishing | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
charge. Several people all other similar sprinting ability, road | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
riders, hard men, not top sprinters but good in groups. There are | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
several of them who could take this race. The British team cannot bring | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
it back. That's exactly what they are trying to do. Driving is hard | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
as they can. They controlled this raised all day, just four guys have | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
managed to keep this race as close as it is now, and for the rest of | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
the world, they are somewhat taken aback by the work the two British | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
riders did in the Tour de France and at last year's world | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
championship. They are placed too much confidence in a British team. | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
They have let them to it. That bluff might end up not working out. | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
Grabsch is still there. They need to drive through. Mark Cavendish is | :05:03. | :05:12. | |
:05:13. | :05:19. | ||
on front, number 13. No, Arts still do it. One big injection of | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
:05:29. | :05:32. | ||
pace. Austria are now getting involved as well. Daniel Schorn. Is | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
:05:42. | :05:50. | ||
there's a thing for him to do. If he tries to help, he will have | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
nothing left for the Sprint and then it will be in vain. So many | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
Union Jacks on the Fabian Cancellara. -- so many Union Jacks | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
:06:12. | :06:12. | ||
on The Mall. Was that the capture of one of the big sprinters of | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
Germany, as is Andre Greipel, and it looks like he will come to the | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
front to try to raise the pace. They need to do it soon. I feel a | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
lot of people are waiting for a sprint and if they don't commit | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
themselves now there won't be one. There is no point saving lead out | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
men to come in in third or 4th position. There certainly isn't. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Once again Great Britain on the front powering along trying to lift | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
the tempo a little bit more. Ian Stannard again on the front. As | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
strong as he is, he cannot do this alone. Everyone is leaving him | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
alone at the front to do this work. They need half a dozen riders | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
driving through giving everything they have got in these final | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
kilometres. Yes, Iain Stannard with his race face on their, grimacing | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
and gritting his teeth. Is under so much pressure as he tries to help | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
the British team along the front. He's trying to pull the leading | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
group back to no avail. Well, the Swiss are driving here and now they | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
have their opportunity. Fabien Cantillaro, will hear attack? Will | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
he wait for the sprint? We don't know. The last few metres are going | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
to be electrifying. So Spain have three men in this group and that is | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
a first class situation. O'Grady is still in there. He has been away at | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
the front of the race ever since the first 20 kilometres when he | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
instigated the first move of the race. He's not too comfortable on | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
the wheels. We saw him shaking his muscles out 100 kilometres to go | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
now. He doesn't do any responsibility to ride here. If he | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
can find opportunity, well, he will take it. Then Stuart O'Grady can | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
take advantage. The commentary team beside us realise they have gone in | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
trouble as well here. About 22 minutes of racing at this speed to | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
go. This Olympic road race. There's all to play for. 51 seconds, the | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
gap, so it's coming down. It is still possible, isn't it? They are | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
coming up to Richmond Park. It's coming down but achingly slow. Its | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
15 seconds of that time when they start to mess around. That will be | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
there to close, at least 30 seconds now. Dear, dear, this is nail- | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
biting stuff, isn't it? Great Britain on the front, Germany, | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
second, Great Britain third, Germany, 4th. It's a mix of the two | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
most powerful squads would this printers. Bradley Wiggins at the | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
front driving. He has to do it now. He can't save it. At the world | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
championship last year, he lasted until last, an aide, to turn up. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Mark Cavendish on the final bend, but he won't be able to do that | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
this year. He is the person who's got to use his ability now. He's | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
got the gold medal to race for on Wednesday and this will not help | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
his chances in that event. If he manages to pull this off, well, he | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
:09:49. | :09:53. | ||
will owe Bradley Wiggins a rather ticking away, the distance to the | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
finish. The distance between these groups, as we switch to a | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
helicopter shot, it shows us the actual beautiful countryside which | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
Cwm-parc. I was filming here yesterday. -- Richmond Park. | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
certainly is beautiful, scenic, and is providing us with a perfect | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
arena for the closing stages here of the Olympic Games road race, and | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
to the two groups are slugging it out. There has been an attack at | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
the front. Why they are roaring, I don't know, because not all Great | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
Britain. A rider has gone away here, and I think he's from Norway. He | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
could be the lone leader here trying to go away. There's an awful | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
:10:49. | :10:58. | ||
the final climb. Clearly, his form is absolutely fantastic. He must | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
have a lot of confidence to go this far out. 20 kilometres to go with | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
the group behind you, there's an awful lot to do. Why didn't he wait | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
a bit longer? And then spring a surprise? He is being pulled back | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
now by the rest of the riders. He has had some good performances, to | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
his credit, over the years. And it looks as if he's going to get swept | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
up here. Is about we pulled back but it was a valiant effort and it | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
certainly put the rest on the back foot. It's the right thing to do | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
but unfortunate, at the wrong time. A former silver medal or. -- | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
meddler. Is it pretty tough at this stage? No, it isn't. It is pretty | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
much flat all the way back. The roads get bigger and bigger as they | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
come out of the park. Up nothing they can't cope with. No problem at | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
all. Literally, this flat is all they have got between this and The | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
Mall. It is go and to be close now. We desperately need another time | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
check now for the Bradley Wiggins and Ian Stannard were closing this | :12:18. | :12:28. | |
gap but were they doing enough? The gap is more than 30 seconds. The | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
impetus has gone out. What is happening here, instead of a long | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
thin are working line, they are bunching up a little bit. But the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
perfect scenario for Great Britain because riders are looking at each | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
other to say, I'm not going to carry on, help me. That could be | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
done to the advantage of Great Britain. Already coming to the | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
front now is the rider from the Netherlands. He things, we are not | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
going to lose this. He is now beginning to raise the tempo. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
has cost them dearly. That was probably 10-15 seconds they have | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
lost, a precious advantage, while they looked at it to that. Yes, you | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
want to win the Olympic road race, and yes, you want to use tactics | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
but it's way too early. This 17 kilometres to go and it's too early. | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
If they start to do that now, for sure, they will not stay awake. | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
1972, the Netherlands were victorious there. That was in | :13:29. | :13:39. | |
:13:39. | :13:45. | ||
the front. A strong man. He's trying to kick the impetus here in | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
the group. Conches other fact, every time they he's back, he's | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
going to lose out. -- conscious of the fact. Well, there was a crash | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
there! Some body has gone into the barriers. We will get another look | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
at that, I hope. What a thing to happen. How many of the papers were | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
involved there? Gilbert was not involved. He missed out on the | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
crash. They are not sure what to do. They are going to carry on riding. | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
I think they have no choice at this stage. It's not the Tour de France | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
were you wait for will come Patriots to have issues, because if | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
you wait for them now, you may as well not bother because the peloton | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
has almost upon you. Has that lost them more time? Italy are going | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
away. Is it Russia? The colours of Russia and Italy are very similar. | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
:14:51. | :14:58. | ||
Italy are in the next year. They taking this opportunity, but it is | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
not going to happen. They are already starting to chase behind. | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
think it is a rider from Norway. Didn't he go down questing Mikey | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
overran the corner and went straight into the barriers. I think | :15:17. | :15:26. | |
it was an Italian. A momentary loss of concentration. We are being told | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
it was Fabian Cancellara. Surely not. He is a superb bike handler. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Maybe he had a problem with a puncture. That would be devastating | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
for them. He was their big hope. And it was. And he is holding his | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
arm. He has definitely hurt himself. One of the big favourites has gone | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
out. This is exactly what happened in the world championships 12 | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
months ago and he crashed there and was forced down into the bronze | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
medal position. He has had a serious injury to his right arm. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
This is the Olympic Games, but I think it is fair to say he is out | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
of this race. Possibly the favourite rider in that group. He | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
is being passed by the peloton, so they are not far behind. I think | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
that is David Mellor on the group driving them at the front. He is | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
nicely placed. That was a back wheel slide and a front wheel slide. | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
He goes down very hard into the barrier. That could be the end of | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
his chances for the time-trial on Wednesday as well. That was a | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
terrible crash for him. Looking at the possibility of an Olympic medal | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
in the road race and to be taken out by such men so unnecessary. He | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
locked the back wheel and over- compensated with the front wheel | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
and was too far into the corner to recover that one. Once your front | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
wheel goes, that is it. That has whittled down this front group and | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
that will change the course of the race. Would you believe it, the | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
luck changes with every pedal revolution of this race. Still | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
plenty of Fridays there. We will try and confirm to you who is in it. | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
Fabian Cancellara very upset. confirm Sanchez and Valverde are | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
:17:46. | :17:49. | ||
there. Power Lee of Italy is there. Philippe Gilbert is still up there. | :17:50. | :17:59. | |
Stuart O'Grady is still in there as well, of Australia. There might be | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
the rider from Uzbekistan. I am sorry we cannot be more positive, | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
but we are getting very little information. This is the most | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
important break away in the last four years and we need a time check. | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
We need to see pictures of the race ahead. What is the gap between | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
these two groups. We have seen Bradley Wiggins driving on the | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
front. Surely it is coming down. We have seen Ian Stannard pouring his | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
heart out to bring it back. The crash would have taken the impetus | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
out of the break. We can only assume it has got to be close. | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
kilometres of racing, that is six miles to go. If they do not give us | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
eight-times split, it is as nerve- racking to us as well. They are | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
approaching Putney High Street. Then they will be coming over | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
Putney Bridge for the final time. Just 12 minutes of racing left in | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
this Olympic road race. It is still all for grabs. We have to believe | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
that the work the GB team has put in all day, they have written their | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
heart out for Mark Cavendish, surely it is going to be close now? | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
I thought that was the same corner! They have got to be close now. I | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
have got to believe, we have not seen that time check. It is 56 | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
seconds. It is still the same time. If that is the case, then the | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
leader will come from this front group. If that is the gap, then the | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
race is over it. A lot of work being put in by Bradley Wiggins. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
That is the first time we have seen him in the race and he has a | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
problem. There is a gasp in the stands behind us. Which group is he | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
in? Is he in the group that is chasing? I think he was in the lead | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
group. If that is the case, he will be chasing to get into that group. | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
The winner will come from this group. Unless they start doing | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
theirs. If they start to mess around now, they could lose all the | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
advantage. This is a big attack, the kind of conclusion we expect | :20:38. | :20:48. | |
:20:48. | :20:49. | ||
from this race. That is an attack from Denmark. That was a good move, | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
:20:59. | :20:59. | ||
but straight away it has been regulated. Third from the front is | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
the Kazakhstan rider, he is in the mix here as well. They sweep around | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
these corners and the race has lost two serious players. Look at this | :21:11. | :21:19. | |
for an attack on the leg. A downhill attack. Full of confidence. | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
It looks like an attack from New Zealand. In fact, I think that is | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
:21:35. | :21:35. | ||
the Russian Kolobnev. Those two are going away beautifully. This race | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
is going to come down to chicken and a bit of flak because there are | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
going to be so many attacks you cannot follow all of them. Only one | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
of them is going to get some leeway. When the group behind fault has | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
momentarily and the gap is established, somebody has got to | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
commit to chase. This is a good move. Seven kilometres remaining | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
bust up these two have got to form a temporary alliance. They have got | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
to work together if they want to see the attack. They have got | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
enough to yo-yo a little bit. They can afford to withstand some of the | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
attacks behind, but they cannot take any pressure off. This is | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
:22:32. | :22:40. | ||
their opportunity will start the Colombian is clear. I do not know | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
too much about his sprinting ability. They are starting to look | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
behind and that is the wrong thing to do. They have got a gap off four | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
seconds and that is significant with seven kilometres to go. They | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
can do it if they work together and fully commit, but if they start to | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
:23:10. | :23:14. | ||
look at each other, it is not going to happen. That really is a great | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
move. We come back to the peloton desperately trying to get back on | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
terms, but I fear it might be too late. They are doing everything | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
:23:33. | :23:45. | ||
they possibly can. These two are cannot recall a medal of any colour, | :23:45. | :23:54. | |
Surrey I can, he got sulphur in Sydney. The caption confirming who | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
:24:04. | :24:08. | ||
these two are. -- silver. Kazakhstan rider will be happy if | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
he gets a medal in theirs. They have got to establish that break if | :24:14. | :24:24. | |
:24:24. | :24:28. | ||
they want to take the prize. Fully committed. Bradley Wiggins worked | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
incredibly hard for his team, did everything that he can. He is spent, | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
that is his job done. We will see him on Wednesday on the Olympic | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
time-trial. Hopefully this has not dented his form for that event. | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
:24:57. | :25:00. | ||
is Colombia verses Kazakhstan for the gold and silver medal. Just a | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
handful of moments to go in this race. They have still got a slender | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
advantage. Maybe two seconds ended with just a few kilometres | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
remaining. They are working well together. If they start to think | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
about the race for themselves, surely it is all over? Yes, this is | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
:25:36. | :25:47. | ||
the better sprinter of these two. Those behind have still not given | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
up, and they are trying to work hard for Mark Cavendish, but there | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
is no let up in front. I cannot believe they can come back now, not | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
after the last time check of over 50 seconds. It is beginning to look | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
promising for them. We are waiting to see if there is going to be a | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
reaction from the front. It is a rider from Kazakhstan and a | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
Colombian. At the moment they are going to contest the gold and | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
:26:34. | :26:34. | ||
silver medals. They are heading towards Brompton Road. The final | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
kilometre will bring them on to Constitution Hill. Another attack, | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
there are some tired legs in this group. But the sad news is that | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
Great Britain team are going to miss out. They are not going to be | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
in with a chance of a medal. Everybody else was expecting them | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
to do all the work and left it to them. It was not going to be. There | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
was too much work for them to do it. They are still trying as hard as | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
they can to bring this end. This is Ian Stannard still on the front | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
driving away. Even though we do not know what they that is, just the | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
fact we cannot see them, six kilometres from the finish, surely | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
that means the chance has gone now. They cannot bring that grew back. | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
After all that work and they controlled the race, probably apart | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
from the last three-quarters of an hour, and they have not been able | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
to pull that grew back. They still continue to work hard, but here are | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
the two leaders. The finishing sprint is not going to be far away | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
now. That gap has increased significantly and that is a nice | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
advantage. It is up to them now to be honest. Are they prepared to | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
keep working and to keep going? If they start to think about waiting | :28:00. | :28:10. | |
:28:10. | :28:13. | ||
for a sprinter, it will all be over. They have got to commit themselves. | :28:13. | :28:22. | |
The silver medal-winner from Sydney versus the Colombian. This is going | :28:22. | :28:32. | |
:28:32. | :28:57. | ||
have seen no British rider involved in the chase on the front. They are | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
just coming towards the end of Brompton Road and heading towards | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
an Knightsbridge, that exclusive shopping area. Then it will be | :29:07. | :29:17. | |
:29:17. | :29:20. | ||
Wellington Place and Constitution will slug it out for gold and civil. | :29:20. | :29:27. | |
Colombia verses Kazakhstan. -- silver. On a run in like this, it's | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
down to chance. It's just a question of which one gets enough | :29:33. | :29:43. | |
:29:43. | :29:55. | ||
of a gap to stay away. These two, a looks across to say, who is going | :29:55. | :30:03. | |
to get this? The element of surprise at the moment. We're into | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
the closing stages and we have flags across our camera shots. A | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
glorious shot their of Buckingham Palace as they come through the | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
final 500-metre mark. They will be lined up for the finishing run to | :30:16. | :30:22. | |
the line. They now move into the finishing straight. They can see | :30:23. | :30:30. | |
began tree ahead of them. Who is going to get it? -- the country | :30:30. | :30:40. | |
:30:40. | :30:43. | ||
he has got the front position. He's powering on to what will be the | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
gold medal. Kazakhstan, they will take the gold medal. He is the | :30:48. | :30:54. | |
Olympic champion. Here comes the cavalry charge behind for the | :30:54. | :31:03. | |
bronze medal. It is Spain at now and the Netherlands got the bronze | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
medal and we will confirm the name of the bronze medal winner when we | :31:07. | :31:17. | |
:31:17. | :31:18. | ||
get the caption of that but the gold medal has gone to Kazakhstan. | :31:18. | :31:25. | |
Mark Cavendish on the far side looking to finish. They come up to | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
the line, here they go, powering up to the line and across the blind | :31:29. | :31:36. | |
first, it looks like they finish in 4th position. Great Britain worked | :31:36. | :31:45. | |
so hard but it just slipped away in the closing stages. Here is the man | :31:45. | :31:53. | |
who was a silver medal but Le -- silver medal-winner in Sydney. | :31:53. | :32:03. | |
:32:03. | :32:09. | ||
It really, really was. He can't believe it. He got four per place | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
on the Tour de France. He desperately wanted to get a stage | :32:12. | :32:21. | |
but it did not happen for him. He's almost retired. To finish off with | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
an Olympic gold medal, well, if you're going to retire, now is the | :32:26. | :32:33. | |
time to do it. Mark Cavendish Road all day. A fantastic ride by him up | :32:33. | :32:40. | |
to get himself in shape but he blew it there by leading the work all | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
the way to the British team. He has threatened retirement for so many | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
seasons and a terrible crash in the Tour de France and he broke his leg, | :32:49. | :32:54. | |
actually, and was out of competition, but he's come back and | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
used his power and strength to win a gold medal. There is Bradley | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
Wiggins, so near and yet so far. A phenomenal effort by the team, but | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
it slipped away in the last hour. Everything else, after last week, | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
the rest of the world will be relieved Britain is not winning | :33:12. | :33:18. | |
absolutely everything. They are saying the bronze medal has been | :33:18. | :33:25. | |
awarded to Christophe of Norway. I'm not sure I agree with that. | :33:25. | :33:32. | |
They say he has won the bronze medal. As Pakistan, 4th. O'Grady, | :33:32. | :33:42. | |
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5th. We forgot that he was printing further back. Andre Greipel. Stuart | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
O'Grady, fifth-place. I can't believe he can still compete at | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
this level in competition. Jill Douglas straight in to get into | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
these. Hopefully we will get that to you in the next few minutes. | :33:56. | :34:04. | |
Here is where it happened, that attack. A handful of, it's as ago. | :34:04. | :34:09. | |
But small hesitation was all that they needed. A look over the | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
shoulder, who is going to chase? Suddenly they had 20 minutes and | :34:13. | :34:21. | |
they were not going to the reached. They got their head down and got | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
that gap. This is where the Colombian lost it. He looked over | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
his left shoulder. He saw him looking the wrong way, jumped clear | :34:31. | :34:37. | |
and that was an advantage for the gold medal winner. You can see by | :34:37. | :34:43. | |
the amount he was distance there, he'd already had a huge hesitation. | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
I don't think he had the power. goes one better than it did in | :34:48. | :34:56. | |
Sydney and gets the gold medal here. The Colombian gets the silver. | :34:56. | :35:03. | |
don't think he has won a race this year. It's not a bad one to win, is | :35:03. | :35:10. | |
it? In our excitement, we said Andre Greipel was 4th but that was | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
not the case because it was Christophe of Norway who was | :35:14. | :35:20. | |
confirmed as the bronze medal winner. Andre Greipel was the first | :35:20. | :35:26. | |
home in the posse of riders behind who was chasing them down. A nice | :35:26. | :35:36. | |
:35:36. | :35:39. | ||
victory salute. 26th place, in fact, Andre Greipel. There we are. A | :35:39. | :35:41. | |
lovely shot balls of the gold medal winner of the men's Olympic Games | :35:41. | :35:51. | |
:35:51. | :35:52. | ||
What a moment for Alexander and for Kazakhstan and you could see the | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
emotion after he crossed the line. Its day one of the Olympics and is | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
not the first person we've seen in tears. They could be some tears | :36:00. | :36:05. | |
from Mark Cavendish this evening. Four years ago, he was the only | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
track cyclist not to pick up a medal at the Games and the team had | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
spent the last two years gearing up for today, and have been up and | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
down that hill. Mark Cavendish said he's been up and down that hill 20 | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
times. The aim was to get Mark Cavendish to the finish so he its | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
print for gold but sadly it was not to be. Real exhausting be sought | :36:27. | :36:30. | |
including from Bradley Wiggins and now has to race on Wednesday in the | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
time-trial. We should your frustration but there was not | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
enough information on screen about the peloton attack and the leaders, | :36:38. | :36:45. | |
so I do apologise for that but it was out of our control. There was a | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
chance today to raise for gold in the Olympics and this is a man who | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
has thought long and hard about retiring in the past couple of | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
seasons. How happy he will be that he didn't. We saw in there with | :36:56. | :37:03. | |
Jill Douglas. Let's hear what he had to say. Congratulations. This | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
was not may be what the British public wanted but a fantastic | :37:07. | :37:12. | |
victory for you. How does this one rate in your long career? | :37:12. | :37:22. | |
:37:22. | :37:30. | ||
Unbelievable. Yes, I'm tired. OK, today's race was unbelievable. | :37:30. | :37:40. | |
:37:40. | :37:49. | ||
Dangerous. OK, I followed the group and then attacked on the sprint. It | :37:49. | :37:59. | |
:37:59. | :37:59. | ||
was hot. A victory at the finish of my career. It felt like everybody | :37:59. | :38:09. | |
:38:09. | :38:12. | ||
was writing against Great Britain today. Yes. OK, no chance. It was | :38:12. | :38:17. | |
quite aware all the way through a race that Team GB were left to | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
their own devices and nobody wanted Mark Cavendish at the end because, | :38:20. | :38:27. | |
in a sprint, he is deadly. He was not there but this man was. I don't | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
blame him for telling Jill Douglas he was tired. He was in the saddle | :38:32. | :38:38. | |
for five hours and 45 minutes. Tanni Grey Thompson was there and | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
we'll be there for the women's race tomorrow. Give us some kind of | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
sense of the atmosphere down there. We have seen a very popular winner | :38:47. | :38:53. | |
but fair disappointment as well. mixed reaction now. There's | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
thousands of people, everybody is elbowing their way to get to the | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
front and you can tell how much British support there was. There | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
was a big screen behind us and are sinners there was the final shot | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
Bradley Wiggins, there was a massive cheer from the crowd. It's | :39:08. | :39:13. | |
been amazing, a very exciting race. There is a sense of disappointment | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
because, I think we were expecting Mark Cavendish to win. Even when | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
the gap got to six minutes, nobody was panicking. But they just left | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
the British guys to do all the work and nobody was going to help him to | :39:26. | :39:31. | |
the gold medal. One thing we must mention about Mark Cavendish, the | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
Games have been so good to you. For Mark, they had been so cruel, | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
haven't they? He struggled so much in Beijing leaving without a medal | :39:40. | :39:44. | |
and the same today. There doesn't seem to be a love affair between | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
him and the Olympic movement. very hard and it doesn't make it | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
any better when you say these things sometimes happen. It was | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
very hard in Beijing, the only guide to come back without a medal. | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
I think also, with the world championships last year, the rest | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
of the world was watching how the British performed in the Tour. They | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
knew that the weakness was actually just to leave them to do all the | :40:08. | :40:12. | |
work. There was a tiny bit of help from Tony Martin in the German team. | :40:12. | :40:19. | |
They had Andre Greipel, who they want to get to the finish line so | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
it was down to the boys. Ian Stannard was great, Chris Froome, | :40:23. | :40:30. | |
Bradley Wiggins, but they needed more guys to help mark. We must say | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
congratulations to Alexander. The good news is, your top has | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
brightened up everybody's mood. We will see you tomorrow. A thank | :40:40. | :40:45. | |
you very much. What a strange race that was in many ways and the drama | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
is part of a busy day one as the Games begin right across the | :40:49. | :40:59. | |
country. As we have seen, two years in the planning, not even the | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
presence of the winner of the Tour de France could propel him to glory. | :41:03. | :41:10. | |
Well done Kazakhstan. Well-earned and well deserved gold Medal. It's | :41:10. | :41:15. | |
been a busy day in the pool as well. Hannah Miley is a plea through to | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
the final of the 400 metres individual medley. The Commonwealth | :41:17. | :41:26. | |
champion will be trying to get an Olympic medal at 8:10pm tonight. | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
American Michael Phelps, the eight fastest in qualifying for the final | :41:29. | :41:35. | |
of 400 metres. He will be in the outside lane for tonight's final | :41:35. | :41:41. | |
and his rival is the great Ryan Lochte. It's also been a good day | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
for Britain's gymnasts. Chris Thomas pleads the qualifying for | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
Team GB ahead of the Olympic champions, China, and that is no | :41:49. | :41:57. | |
mean feat. Sadly be can be pure gold medal but | :41:57. | :42:07. | |
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we can bring you Sue Barker. How A Sue Barker has turned up and is | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
wrecking the set within seconds of arriving. We'll hear from you in a | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
moment when we can here for you. Of course, there's plenty of sport on | :42:25. | :42:35. | |
:42:35. | :42:46. | ||
The BBC is covering the 2012 Olympics like never before. Whether | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
it's on TV, online, on the radio or through your mobile. We'll make | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
sure you never miss a moment of these historic Games. On BBC One, | :42:53. | :42:55. | |
we'll be broadcasting from Breakfast right through until one | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
in the morning. Whilst BBC Three will be showing live action | :42:58. | :43:00. | |
uninterrupted from nine in the morning to 11 o'clock at night. | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
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ceremonies and the 100m final. London 2012 on the BBC. We've got | :43:55. | :44:05. | |
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Apologies there, filling the gap of me when you want to speak to Sue | :44:09. | :44:18. | |
Barker. Good afternoon. The I'm only joking! But also to | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
disappointment, wasn't it, with Mark Cavendish? It is interesting | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
at the end, listening about the team tactics and I guess that's | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
what happens when you are the world champion and the best sprinter,... | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
Quite right. Chris Boardman the efforts of the biggest problem for | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
Mark Cavendish is his reputation. Every cyclist want to get to the | :44:37. | :44:43. | |
end without Mark Cavendish near them and their tactics worked under | :44:43. | :44:49. | |
managed to put down Team GB but we go again in the women's. Nicole and | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
Liz the tomorrow. Are they the ones they are going to be... In it's | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
hard to know. She did amazingly well in Beijing and Lizzie | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
Armistead has come through for the women. We will wait and see but the | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
smart money is definitely on Lizzie Armistead and she will look for the | :45:06. | :45:11. | |
team, including Nicole, to support her. Great scenes on the road. | :45:11. | :45:20. | |
Well done to the crowds. Good luck this afternoon. Now the microphone | :45:20. | :45:24. | |
is working, we are heading to Wimbledon. We were there about | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
three weeks ago but it is a whole new look at Wimbledon this year. | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
Yes, coloured clothing on Centre Court, all different colours. Big | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
crowds as well. A whole different ball game than it was three weeks | :45:37. | :45:47. | |
ago. We have this much, Roger Federer against Alexander Faurlin. | :45:47. | :45:57. | |
:45:57. | :45:57. | ||
-- against Falla. He will not be But join John Lloyd and Andrew | :45:57. | :46:07. | |
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Cassell. COMMENTATOR: Welcome To the Centre | :46:08. | :46:10. | |
Court scheduled featuring Serena Williams and Tomas Berdych. Now, | :46:10. | :46:20. | |
:46:20. | :46:33. | ||
Roger Federer, against Falla, from Centre Court has witnessed this | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
match before, in 2010, the first round of the championships. Roger | :46:38. | :46:46. | |
FED are what was defending champion, two sets down and Falla served for | :46:46. | :46:56. | |
:46:56. | :47:21. | ||
UMPIRE: Roger Federer is challenging the call. The court is | :47:21. | :47:25. | |
differently dressed up and we have become used to. So are the players. | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
They can wear coloured shirts, red for Switzerland, yellow for | :47:30. | :47:37. | |
Colombia. But much of the technology remains the same, | :47:37. | :47:47. | |
:47:47. | :47:47. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :47:47. | :48:30. | |
The first set was 6-3 to Federer. A tough draw for Federer, isn't it? | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
It has been a quality match. Federer came up here and from the | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
beginning was on the top of his game and had to be. That first set, | :48:38. | :48:44. | |
6-3, was closer than the score indicates. Would it not be in the | :48:44. | :48:47. | |
best-of-five sets, this is a big difference, it is the best of three. | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
Lesser ranked players will feel they have a better chance against | :48:50. | :49:00. | |
:49:00. | :49:21. | ||
That first set, we saw Federer picked three 4-4 shops that no | :49:21. | :49:25. | |
other player in the world could make, and he made them. The crowd | :49:25. | :49:35. | |
:49:35. | :49:44. | ||
But he had a difficult player to play against, is Falla. He gets a | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
high percentage of first serves in, 82% in the first set. He has been | :49:49. | :49:59. | |
:49:59. | :50:14. | ||
This has been a fun match to watch Almost a controlled this hit, that, | :50:14. | :50:24. | |
:50:24. | :50:24. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :50:24. | :51:20. | |
A break of serve, Federer is in control of this match, up one set | :51:20. | :51:29. | |
There was a lot of surprise when tennis was readmitted to the | :51:29. | :51:38. | |
Olympic family as a full medal sport in 1988. It sold, in 1984 it | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
had been a demonstration sport. But it is not as though tennis did not | :51:41. | :51:47. | |
have an Olympic pedigree. It was a part of the first modern Games in | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
1896 and all the way through 1924. This is the 14th time tennis has | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
been a medal event at the Olympic Games and it has been in London | :51:54. | :52:00. | |
before, in Wimbledon, in 1908. It was held at Queen's Club, indoors, | :52:00. | :52:06. | |
and on the grass at Wimbledon because Wimbledon had not moved to | :52:06. | :52:16. | |
:52:16. | :52:19. | ||
this part until 1922. So it has A lot of people did not think, they | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
were sceptical about whether tennis would fit these professionals who | :52:24. | :52:29. | |
are so celebrated and endorsed and sponsored but they are perfectly | :52:29. | :52:39. | |
:52:39. | :53:14. | ||
happy to play for their countries He has not got the most powerful | :53:14. | :53:24. | |
:53:24. | :53:51. | ||
serve in the world, but he is UMPIRE: Mr Falla is challenging the | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
call. A There is two were reasons he will have challenged that, he | :53:56. | :54:01. | |
will have looked at Federer's reaction. And the field, off his | :54:01. | :54:11. | |
:54:11. | :54:27. | ||
own racket. It was correct. A 64 draw in there men's and women's | :54:27. | :54:37. | |
:54:37. | :54:45. | ||
We saw two exquisite forehand drops in the first set, now here is the | :54:45. | :54:55. | |
:54:55. | :55:13. | ||
That is just what he was doing throughout the championships at | :55:13. | :55:18. | |
Wimbledon, earlier on this month, finishing on July 8th of course | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
against Britain's Andy Murray, where he lost the first set and | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
produced a bit of genius at the end of the second set and that turned | :55:25. | :55:31. | |
the match around. He must have loved it, when he heard it was | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
going to be at Wimbledon on the grass, he must have just gone, yes! | :55:35. | :55:43. | |
Here is my entry for! Seven times the Wimbledon champion. And one | :55:43. | :55:53. | |
:55:53. | :56:31. | ||
game a plate -- away from the again It is an amazing example of | :56:31. | :56:39. | |
imagination and then the scale -- a skill. He was asked the other way - | :56:39. | :56:43. | |
- he was asked the other day who was the biggest star in the world | :56:44. | :56:47. | |
of sport at the Olympics and he said, not me. He is perfectly happy | :56:47. | :56:57. | |
:56:57. | :57:05. | ||
So sustained brilliance and firepower from the world No. One | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
and top seed here at the Olympic tennis event. It has been a great | :57:09. | :57:19. | |
:57:19. | :57:19. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :57:19. | :58:14. | |
Now, but is well played by the Colombian. He did the right thing. | :58:14. | :58:21. | |
He got his first serve in, swung it wide enough. Just offered that | :58:21. | :58:31. | |
:58:31. | :58:31. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :58:31. | :59:12. | |
element of surprise. That is what . Credit where it is due. Five | :59:12. | :59:19. | |
straight points MAP -- five straight points in a row. Well done | :59:19. | :59:25. | |
to him, it keeps it going for the Centre Court crowd here. Capacity | :59:25. | :59:28. | |
14,000 as opposed to 15,000 for the championships, due to camera | :59:28. | :59:32. | |
positions and furniture changes around but Centre Court is all | :59:32. | :59:37. | |
dressed up like we have never seen it before and full of colour. | :59:37. | :59:43. | |
Primrose yellow for the Colombians. That fiery red for the world No. | :59:43. | :59:47. | |
One, who has now been at the top of the world rankings longer than | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
anybody else, including Pete Sampras, who he has just overtaken. | :59:51. | :59:57. | |
There is very few records that have not fallen to him. He must be | :59:57. | :00:00. | |
annoying for some of these players who have these records, Jimmy | :00:00. | :00:05. | |
Connors, Pete Sampras, they must, deep down, hated. I am sure they | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
don't really! He does not retire, he does not get injured. It is a | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
:00:20. | :00:22. | ||
Roger Federer will sever for a place in the second round in the | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
:00:32. | :00:32. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :00:32. | :01:39. | |
Seen a few of those slips today, on the opening day. Thomas Berdych, | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
number six seed and a former finalist here, he went over, it was | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
either seven or eight times he was on his behind. Before losing his | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
match. Federer just managing to stay up there. The Colombian has | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
:02:04. | :02:05. | ||
half a chance. Excellent play! Federer hasn't done that much wrong | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
this game. This is all due to the attacking play from the Colombian, | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
:02:20. | :02:46. | ||
taking the ball on. Showing no Federer having to dig deep. First | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
round match. High quality. A dig on the forehand side from Federer was | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
excellent, and to find that backhand down the line, keeps him | :02:53. | :03:03. | |
:03:03. | :03:21. | ||
Found the line, I think. He is going to challenge it. Looks to the | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
naked eye as though the ball took the line. And some of the chalk | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
with it. No! Missed it. It must have been a different mark. It is | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
out. It's a break. Federer has seen match points come and go and he has | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
:03:47. | :03:47. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :03:47. | :05:04. | |
now lost his serve. The crowd are He used that tactic well today, but | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
that one, Federer was able to get that ball low enough. Falla | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
couldn't quite open the racket face up enough. Exactly, a very positive | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
:05:25. | :05:47. | ||
strike, wasn't it. He certainly The forehand there just took over | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
in that rally. That was the one that set up the point, that first | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
:06:07. | :06:28. | ||
forehand down the line and then Falla was love 40 down on his | :06:28. | :06:38. | |
:06:38. | :06:59. | ||
previous game and he saved all Federer's a bit tight. The | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
Colombian is digging in here. Really a crucial point coming up. | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
It is still break point to Federer. Not everything comes easy to the | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
great man, sometimes he has to dig, and that is what he is doing now. | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
:07:27. | :08:06. | ||
Ooh! Again, that, this is this best of three set scenario. Instead of | :08:06. | :08:16. | |
:08:16. | :08:20. | ||
the best of five, it is just a That is an amazing ball. Fabulous | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
effort, twice in a row he has been love 40 down on his own serve by | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Alejandro Falla has held, and he has got Federer on the ropes here | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
in this second set. Tell you a bit about Alejandro Falla, the 28-year- | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
old. Well, he can go the distance, if he is required to over five sets. | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
You talk about the mentality, the difference between best of three, | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
best of five which is the Grand Slam, this guy can go the distance, | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
he is fit and strong. Do you remember Isner versus Mahut. This | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
year at Wimbledon fal lade feeted him 7-5 and Mahut in the second | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
round, 7-5 in the fifth. So Federer knows he's is playing a dogged | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
opponent. When he almost lost to him he was down two sets to love. | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
He would have been off the court if it had been the best of three sets | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
scenario. So it is tough. They had to look up at his box and there was | :09:26. | :09:36. | |
:09:36. | :09:36. | ||
a worried look on their face, they know this man is dangerous. They | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
want Federer to get this done in two sets and not go into a third. | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
:09:51. | :10:23. | ||
That was the most extraordinary shot selection, but he has no | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
choice, that return of serve came out so fast, he was in no-man's | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
:10:38. | :10:47. | ||
land. He didn't have a lot of 64 men and 64 women in the single's | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
draws here, that means to win gold you have to win straight six | :10:53. | :11:03. | |
:11:03. | :11:07. | ||
matches. At Wimbledon it is a 128 Oh, that was not expected there. He | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
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APPLAUSE This has been a spectacular turn | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
round from Falla who has serve saved three match points. Now, if | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
he can take his fourth game in a row here, it will be one set all. | :11:54. | :12:04. | |
:12:04. | :12:16. | ||
Federer challenging that one, between a first and second serve. | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
:12:26. | :12:55. | ||
And now he has made himself wait. No, that's out. Alejandro Falla of | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
Colombia has taken us to a third set here, and fvings everyone loves | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
:13:10. | :13:13. | ||
it on Centre Court. There is a lot What a shock there, Federer had | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
match points but now it is going to go the distance and we will be back | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
on Centre Court very soon. But we are going to go back to the big | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
story of the day. Halve mav was hoping to claim Britain's first | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
gold medal of these games but it wasn't the dream start for kav and | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
his fans, because the British team, they couldn't keep one the leading | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
pack and Cavendish finished out of the medals. The gold went to | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
Vinokurov. Let us hear from Mark Vinokurov. Let us hear from Mark | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
Cavendish. I know, how bitterly disappointed you are, your team | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
could do no more for you, at times it seemed the rest of the world was | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
up against Great Britain. We knew it was going to be like that, | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
coming into it. We said we will do our race as we want to do it. See | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
what happens, like you said it seems like most teams, they are | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
happy not to win ass long as we don't win. That is the story of our | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
life in cycling. It show what is a strong nation we are, we have to | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
take positives from that and take it as a compliment. But it is | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
disappointing. We couldn't, 70 guys in there, in our group at the | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
finish. I don't understand why there is three guys riding. It | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
donth don't make sense. Well done your team-mate, they looked like | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
they had left it out on the road. Incredible. I couldn't be more | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
proud. They are spent. They are still sat in the tent. They are | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
just absolutely spent. Just rode 250k, going 60k an hour for the | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
last hour. I am so proud. What about the crowd on the road there, | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
so many people have Mark Cavendish masks on, the Union Jack is flying, | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
near on one million people, it must have been emotional. All our ears | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
are ringing, we don't pick up on individuals, we hear a noise all | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
the way here, that was tremendous, the whole way round, it was, it was | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
something I will remember for ever. Everybody knew you are the best | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
sprinter in the world. When it came to here, you were the most likely | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
winner, are we victims of the British cycling team success? | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
Absolutely. That is all we can put it down to, no-one wants to help us, | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
the Australians sit there, they always just ride negatively as well, | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
you know. They had one guy who wasn't going to win but they sat | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
there and didn't want to sprint. I would like to say that is how it | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
goes but it is disappointing. We did everything, like, it is one of | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
those things, we can't make kphuest excuse, we did everything, all the | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
guys, the guys, they were incredible, to see the guys with | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
the calibre they have got, just riding like that for me, it is | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
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just... Olympics and Mark Cavendish We will see, you know. We don't | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
know. I tell you, it is ironic, I looked on the team pursuit this | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
year and could not do it because I have not done it at the World Cup, | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
yet fans were able to enter a track sprinter for the road race who has | :16:38. | :16:47. | |
never done a road race in his life. Something has messed up there. But, | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
we haven't got a medal. I am completely proud of my team and | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
proud of my country for the support if we had. A team pursuit sometime | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
in the future? I am getting too old for it. It is my last chance. | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
you for your time, cheers, Mark. Such disappointment for Mark | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Cavendish. He talked about his team-mates giving their all, | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
including Bradley Wiggins, who will be back on when stake. It is the | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
women's race tomorrow with Lizzie Armitstead and Nicole Cooke going, | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
but tomorrow. That was the news from The Mall earlier today. We are | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
heading back to Wimbledon, Centre Court. Roger Federer looked like he | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
was saving through his earlier round with Alejandro Falla, but he | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
has dropped the second set. It is the first game of the final set. | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
Nuts rejoined John Lydon and Andrew Cassell. -- let's rejoin John Lloyd | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
:17:57. | :18:10. | ||
It is wide, it is going to be a challenge but Federer is walking | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
towards the umpire's chair. He thinks the ball is out and it is in | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
fact a break. It has been cracked wide. Federer gets the break of | :18:23. | :18:32. | |
John Lloyd, any explanation as to what happened at the end of the | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
second set? Obviously totally unexpected. Roger was one step into | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
the locker room mentally himself, thought it was all over at love-40 | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
and Falla came back and after that it was not Federer's fault. Falla | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
just did not miss and Roger got tight at the end of the set, missed | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
a couple of balls and unfortunately for Falla, after winning the second | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
set he got over-excited in the first service game and was a bit | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
:19:13. | :19:23. | ||
But it has been an excellent mixture of pace and spin from Falla. | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
He has been giving so many different looks to Federer. He has | :19:26. | :19:36. | |
:19:36. | :20:03. | ||
come in now and again, got a high The second time we have seen that, | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
Federer has had to volley on the baseline. The ground stroke pace of | :20:09. | :20:19. | |
:20:19. | :20:37. | ||
Just left enough down the line that Falla had to go there. Federer is | :20:37. | :20:47. | |
:20:47. | :21:14. | ||
one step across, cuts it off and it Purple backdrops, coloured shirts, | :21:14. | :21:24. | |
:21:24. | :21:28. | ||
Centre Court looking very different But let there be no doubt that if | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
the tennis players were not and this Olympic Games, if they did not | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
value these gold medalled, the medalled they play for, they would | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
:21:48. | :22:02. | ||
We see Federer getting fired up there. He wants the security of a | :22:02. | :22:12. | |
:22:12. | :22:12. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :22:12. | :23:40. | |
double break against an opponent We haven't seen that very often | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
from Federer, getting round the second serve. The spin is taking | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
him out wide. He took a chance left very early and it paid off. He was | :23:49. | :23:59. | |
:23:59. | :24:25. | ||
That keeps the match alive. If Falla had dropped that service game | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
he could have been out of the tournament but he is still in it. | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
As you rightly say, John, he will feel he has been with the chancier. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
Federer is one of the two Swiss in the jaw -- in the draw for the | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
men's singles event. The other is Wawrinka, who had the honour of | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
carrying the opening flag after Federer declined at the opening | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
ceremony. At this occasion he is staying at Wimbledon, not in the | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
village. We will see Wawrinka in action against Andy Murray tomorrow, | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
presumably a Centre Court match. We are looking forward to that. They | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
have played on this court before and had a classic, the first fall | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
completed match played under the roof, back in 2009. Of course, this | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
is a rematch of 2010 First round, Federer won in five, from two sets | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
down to Abersoch old acquaintances. It is a nasty first round match for | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
Andy Murray, it could be dangerous. I am looking forward to seeing the | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
doubles here at the Olympics. The top players playing in doubles. We | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
don't see it very often, these days. We will see Federer, Djokovic, | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
Murray, all in the men's doubles. It will be fun. Andy Murray and | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
Jamie Murray in action this afternoon in the first round of the | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
:25:55. | :25:55. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :25:55. | :27:36. | |
He can make life difficult, can't he? The accuracy, a short take back, | :27:37. | :27:46. | |
:27:47. | :28:22. | ||
you can't read where he is going to Sue Parr ber -- SUE BARKER:, the | :28:22. | :28:25. |