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Now we are going to be velodrome. This is what is coming up. We have | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
three gold medallists in action today. Jason Kenny will be first up | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
in the semi-final of the individual sprint. We also have 20-year-old | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
Laura Trott who won her first gold medal two days ago in the team | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
pursuit. And also it Vicky Pendleton in the sprint. To show | :00:34. | :00:42. | |
jumping is on BBC Three. We will see the gold medal decided. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
On the red button, the women's boxing continues. The quarter-final | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
action. Also coming up later on, Basketball. It is China against | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Great Britain. Great Britain are trying to come back after the | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
defeat against Australia. We are heading straight over to the | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
velodrome. It is the moment of truth for Jason Kenny because he | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
was the man who came in instead of Chris Hoy for this event. Let's | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
find out more from Jake. Thank you. Can you a Maj-Gen | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
Jamaica been told they had to choose one man to compete for them | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
in the Sprint or the Americans having to choose between Michael | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
Phelps and Ryan Lochte? That is the position that we were put into | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
which -- because of the new rules which say you have to have run - No | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
1 rider per country. The decision was Jason Kenny. He has to prove it | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
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He is the quiet man on the team who is looking to create a roar in the | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
velodrome later tonight. Victoria Pendleton is back on the | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
bike again today after demonstrating she is in the form of | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
higher life. And fresh from smashing of the world record and | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
picking up gold in the women's team pursuits, Laura trot looks to match | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
Ed Clancy and take a medal in the omnium. This is the way the | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
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You must stick around for the women's omnium elimination race | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
because that is a real crowd- pleaser. Alongside me once again | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
his Jamie Staff and Mark Cavendish. Jamie picked up a medal in 2008 and | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Mark is the current sports Personality of the Year. A strange | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
team for the cycling teams to have to make but I guess if you have to | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
choose between Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy, that is not a bad | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
position to be in, is it? really as they are the best in the | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
world. It could be easy to say at least we have the two best to | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
choose from but it makes for a difficult decision. Chris Hoy is | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
the reigning champion, Jason Kenny is up and coming and could be | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
champion now, will be champion, I believe. It is a bit of a strange | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
decision. Gethin it is to give everybody a chance. I do not think | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
anybody will have a chance at Jason! That is probably the point, | :03:43. | :03:52. | |
you have to leave the best sprinters in the stands. Your man | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
that you coached would not be there if it was not for these new rules? | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
I can see the arguments and against. Personally, I think it is wrong to | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
have one person representing each nation but those are the rules. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
There has obviously been a lot of thought coming into this for Team | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
GB, who to pick. Speaking to them at the World Championships a few | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
months ago, they were unsure. They are gathering so much information | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
and training. Speaking to the coaches, he made it clear that | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
Jason was the athlete to pick. That would have been based on data | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
produced by the riders. I think Chris was a bit relieved. There is | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
a lot of pressure for him to come here and get three golds again. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Following his Twitter account, he seems pretty relaxed and calm. He | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
wants to get on with the keirin. He is looking forward to that. There | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
is no bad feelings. He was pretty happy with it. The decision was | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Jason Kenny and he has made it through now to the semi-finals. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
This is how the semi-final looks. You have to say he has probably had | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
the easier semi-final. Jamie might disagree because he has coached his | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
rival! This is the best of three. Their race against each other three | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
times. This happened moments ago in the velodrome, let's join Hugh | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
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from Trinidad. He is a real crowd- pleaser. There is the salute. He is | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
21 years of age and he is up against Jason Kenny of Great | :05:46. | :05:56. | |
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sprint. Listen to the raw. A silver medallist at the World | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
Championships. A fantastic qualifying time. 8.7, absolutely a | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
fire at the moment. Philip is a new man on the scene. Boy, has he been | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
sprinting well. And he is a real showman as well, Philip. He has one | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
or two salutes up his sleeve if he wins. I think he is really up | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
against it here. Philip is coached by Janie staff but Kenny is the man | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
of the moment. It was a very hard decision to decide but Kenny would | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
get the sprint over Sir Chris Hoy. I think the selectors breathed a | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
sigh of relief after he posted his qualifying time. They say a man | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
with nothing to lose is a man to be feared. Jason Ken is showing a lot | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
of respect for him. He is riding around the track and looking | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
backwards, that is a fantastic skill. Just trying to confuse the | :07:13. | :07:22. | |
opposition. Just bluff and counter bluff. Kenny looking backwards. | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
Philip is the gold medal winner for the Pan-Am Sprint Championships but | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
he is really up against it here. They are getting up against the | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
sharp end of the first encounter and Kenny will take it off from the | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
front. Kenny is starting to wind the gear up. Their approaching the | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
back straight. Philip is being stretched to try and get up to the | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
wheel of Jason Kelly. He will not do it. Chasing Kenny has ridden | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
this magnificently and drawn first blood. 1-02 Jason Kenny. -- Jason | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
Kenny has ridden this magnificently. Philip made a mistake there. He | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
went higher and Jason Kenny said I am not coming with you. | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
Unfortunately, Philip showed a little bit of experience there. | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
That was the only opportunity he had there. He was drawn into that | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
by Jason Kenny, trying to use the slipstreamed coming round. He could | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
not get on terms. Very, very tactically astute, Jason Kenny. He | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
commanded the race, controlled the race and delivered in majestic | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
style to go one up. Good riding, just continue with that good form. | :08:49. | :08:59. | |
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Jason Kenny wins heat one. Now we can move on to heat two. The | :09:01. | :09:11. | |
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world champion is already out early. champion for this discipline. He | :09:14. | :09:24. | |
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has been -- he is up against Shane Perkins. He has been a little bit | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
off the pace in the world championships. He has come on | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
tactically, Perkins, in the last 12 months. He is to be a rough | :09:34. | :09:44. | |
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customer but now he is using his sprint. This brings together the | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
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triple world champion, Gregory Bauge, nearest to us from France. | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
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as was Philip. I think he will have to ride tactically in a straight | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
track race. He cannot compete with the Frenchman. His tactics have | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
really come on. He needs to stop him employing the steeper -- the | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
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Super jump. He is approaching the straight. The early stage is always | :10:55. | :11:03. | |
the preliminaries. Each rider tries to outwit the other. This is quite | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
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a good speed. Shayne Perkins is watching Gregory Paul Shayne. -- | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
Bauge. Perkins has taken him armful stump he is starting to commit | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
himself fully into the back straight. -- taken him up on. They | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
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are shoulder to shoulder. Bauge Wins 1-0. I thought that with over | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
a lap to go, Gregory poor shape would get more height. He was happy | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
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to let Perkins dictate. -- Bauge. He sat on his shoulder all the way | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
around the final bend. They are just inches from the white line. | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
They are in excess of 40 miles an hour. The powerful shoulders and | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
arms are keeping the line of the bike. The world champion goes up by | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
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one here, in their first encounter. We are expecting them to meet in | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
the final. Jason Kenny really is letting the selectors know they | :12:40. | :12:50. | |
made the right decision. 10 seconds dead for the last 200 yesterday. | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
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Today the same. He went from flat and he was not event accelerating | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
and tell about 20 metres before. He did 10.1 and 10 yesterday closed up | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
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he is on fire. It is going to be a really big task taking on Jason. | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
Jason has more speed and more acceleration. I told him he needs | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
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to play with him on the track and tried to keep him off guard. -- try. | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
He was trying to confuse Jason a bit. What Kenny is doing, he is | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
keeping him on his shoulder and looking back. It is pretty hard. | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
For him to do that the entire way around the track, you are not | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
giving him any chances to make a surprise attack. I think that Jason | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
knows that. He is keeping a close eye on his opponent. They are | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
playing around a bit. They want to keep the race short. You were | :14:08. | :14:17. | |
telling him to keep an eye on Jason. In fact, it was role-reversal. You | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
pick a card before the race which turns into where you start. It will | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
flip around in the next ride. We will see how he races Jason. At | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
this point Macro, Jason Kenny is so much faster. It is not just the | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
speed, he is a great tactical rider and getting better all the time. | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
Absolutely. He was young in the last Olympics and has had four | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
ideas to ride here. There were three laps of the track and most of | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
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it was with his chin on his shoulder. He can retaliate straight | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
away. We will see him trying later in the next ride. Well done, Jason! | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
So far so good. He is not the only British rider to have a gold medal. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Laura Trott is riding in the women's omnium. This is how it | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
looks. The first event is flying around the track as fast as they | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
can. It is the flying lap. That is followed by five further events. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
Stay with us through to the elimination race because it really | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
is quite special. Let's see how she gets on in her first event. We join | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
her with three to go. We are looking at the world champion. This | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
is Laura Trott from Great Britain. The 20-year-old, who is getting a | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
massive Ovation. She has one got medal in her pocket and that came | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
from the team spent. She is getting ready to post her time. She has to | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
be top three. That is what she is looking for. She is trying to break | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
the time of Sanchez. But she has got off very quickly. The crowd is | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
lifting her around. Five thousandths of a second shy of the | :16:38. | :16:47. | |
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time of Sanchez. Brilliant! She shaves by thousands of the time of | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
Sanchez. Only two more competitors to Gove. The two together are not | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
the best at this discipline. -- to go. Nearly half a second up on her | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
time at the World Championships. I did not at expect her to get near | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
the time of Sanchez. A very good time by Laura Trott. She is on fire, | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
pin-sharp. Edmondson of Australia was first at the world's Inez and | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
Laura Trott was second. -- at the World Championships. This is the | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
penultimate competitive to their, Tara Whitten. She excels more in | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
races such as the points and the pursuit. She is riding further | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
around the track and she needs. She is already 0.2 of the pace. The | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
Canadian is stopping the clock on a time of 14.5 to go 6th. That is the | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
position she occupied in the flying lap at the World Championships. She | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
needs every point she can grab. Perhaps not what she was hoping for. | :18:13. | :18:23. | |
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I think she will be disappointed. She is in 6th position with one | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
competitor to go. Sarah Hammer also not a fan of the flying lap. | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
Generally slightly better than Tara Whitten. Looking at the final | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
competitor to go, the opening discipline of the women's omnium. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
This is Sarah Hammer, at the 29- year-old American. Lookout for her | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
when they come to the 3000 metre pursuit. She got the bronze medal | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
in the World Championships, which took place in April. Coming up to | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
the line. Not particularly a specialist in the one lap sprint. | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
Will she challenged the time of Laura Trott? Let's have a look at | :19:10. | :19:19. | |
the split. No comeback in this one. She went backwards. What a great | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
start for Laura Trott! A real positive start for the world | :19:24. | :19:34. | |
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champion. She has scored one point. She does not really have a weakness | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
in this disciplined - B omnium. To take that sculp was really | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
something. Youth should -- you could not have a better start than | :19:45. | :19:53. | |
that. We will see more of Sarah Hammer in the pursuit and the | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
distance events. A positive start for Laura Trott, the world champion. | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
She wins the opening discipline in convincing style. There is the | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
result of the one lap time trial. You can see Laura Trott ahead of | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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the rest of the competitors. Not the first time we have heard | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
the Velodrome going wild. Margins are not much finer than one | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
thousandth of a second. thousandth of a second is not a lot. | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
It is not about time, it is about position. It is in her favour. | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
Sanchez is a specialist sprinter. She does the sprint in AQIM. Laura | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
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Trott has beaten her. She is an Endurance rider. How much on the | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
track is a thousandth of a second? Not a lot. It makes it dramatic as | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
well. Laura Trott seems to have a real punch in us that you need for | :21:27. | :21:37. | |
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these kind of events. -- punchiness. She was identified as a sprinter | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
but she was pushed more down the route of Endurance. She will have a | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
really quick acceleration. Her first split was the fastest. She | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
was a bit behind Sanchez on the second. The endurance element | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
probably helped on the final stretch. Just to remind you that | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
Laura Trott is an expert up against the clock. That is next up for her. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
Now from one British success to another. The second round in the | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
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first semi-final of the men's sprint. Jason Kenny and Gregory | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
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be proud. His opponent is from Trinidad. -- at the crowd. He is a | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
flamboyant rider but has quite a challenge ahead of him. In terms of | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
experience, dace and Kenny is way ahead of the Trinidadian. -- Jason | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
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Kenny. They are away for heat two. If Philip wants to take this to a | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
decider, he has to take this. Tactics are the only chance. He is | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
in the right place to deploy it any tactics he can think of. Holding | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
him at the front and stalling him for as long as possible. Kenny has | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
been second in Beijing and has not dropped off that kind of form in | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
four years. He has tons of experience. One thing I will say | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
about the Trinidadian, he is not fazed by reputations. He has | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
nothing to lose. He has got further in the competition than he expected. | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
It is almost as if they had won. He will do the best he can. Here goes | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
Jason Kenny. Look at the acceleration! There was nearly a | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
crash when Philip just flicked at but Kenny wrote it magnificently. | :24:26. | :24:35. | |
Now it is all over. You are into the final. Brimming over with | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
confidence. 10.1 for the closing 100. I am sure we will see that | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
again on replay. He did not take his. The gas at all. He almost | :24:48. | :24:58. | |
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ignored Philip. -- foot off. That little hook by Philip and I think | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
the commissars would have frowned upon that. They do not have to be | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
inside the last 200m. Once the sprint has started, you are not | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
allowed to come out of your lane or endanger your competitors. Kenny | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
would have been awarded that anyway. Kenny never flinched. He went | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
around the long way and he is into the final, having disposed of the | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
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for the next contest, you are looking here at heat two, raced two | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
and out early and ready for business is Shane Perkins is off | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
Australia. And also on track is the big powerful Frenchmen, Gregory | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
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Bauge. Perkins has got nothing to lose. He might try and take the | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
Frenchman by surprise which is what Kenny did at world championships. | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
It nailed the Frenchman to the floor. It did not quite come off | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
but it was so close. This is a race two of Pete two of the men's semi- | :26:31. | :26:40. | |
final sprints. Gregory Bauge from France against Shane Perkins from | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
Australia. Perkins is one down after the first race. We have got | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
to work out what he can do? Being at the back is not the place where | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
he will want to be. The Frenchman will just hold him. It is so much | :26:57. | :27:05. | |
further to go around the outside. They ride at a fast pace around the | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
banking, then accelerate, hold them on the shoulder in the bends. Bauge | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
knows how to do that. Perkins has got to do something special, either | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
take him by surprise with a long one or try and get in front. 10.3, | :27:23. | :27:32. | |
the winning time in heat 1, race 1. That was 69 kilometres per hour. It | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
is all about trying to outwit your opponents here. Could Perkins | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
possibly take a scalp and go to the best of three. If they go to the | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
best of three, we have seen that Bauge is slightly vulnerable. | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
controlling this race now. It is hard to see the Frenchman being | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
beaten. Perkins tries to go around the outside but the Frenchman will | :28:00. | :28:08. | |
accelerate. As you can see, Perkin strives to get some more speed and | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
height. Bauge matches him trying to keep him in position. Is Bauge | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
happy leading this one out and will Perkins's be happy trying to race | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
him from second will? The speed is beginning to lift. To it is being | :28:23. | :28:31. | |
dictated at the moment. Bauge has got to try something here and he is | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
falling into the hands of the French rider. Bauge has his hand on | :28:36. | :28:44. | |
the tiller here. Can Perkins challenge? Here comes the challenge | :28:44. | :28:52. | |
of Perkins. Can he come round the outside? No, Bauge is too strong. | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
It set up a final between Jason Kenny and Gregory Bauge which will | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
be a repeat of the world championship clash earlier this | :29:01. | :29:10. | |
year. Bauge dictated throughout, didn't he. Two riders have been | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
stamped out in this competition. Bauge and Kenny deserve to be in | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
the final. Both of them I think are head-and-shoulders above the | :29:19. | :29:26. | |
opposition. They have gone for two clean rides to get them into the | :29:26. | :29:34. | |
final. That was a repeat of the world final in 2010 and Bauge won | :29:34. | :29:44. | |
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We have already discussed the contentious decision not to allow | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
countries to have more than one rider in the event. But we do have | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
two men in the final, this two men who fought out the world | :29:53. | :30:01. | |
championship not too long ago. Bauge looks ominously good. He eat | :30:01. | :30:08. | |
his and tactically very good. as a man who sprinted from living | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
there now coaches the sprinters, the power that Jason Kenny showed, | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
we do not want to draw on it too much because we know you coached | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
Njisane but he rode around the outside without breaking a sweat. | :30:20. | :30:26. | |
Yes, Njisane comes from Trinidad where they do a lot tactically. | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
There is a lot of good racing down there. He threw everything he could | :30:31. | :30:41. | |
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at him. He has gone further in this competition than I hoped. I know he | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
is proud already and hopefully he will give Perkins a run for the | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
bronze which would be amazing if he could top Perkins. But even there I | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
think he has got his work cut out. Are a good competition so far and | :30:56. | :31:02. | |
no major surprises. There is a guy from Trinidad and Tobago who is | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
getting a chance to ride, not only in front of this crowd but in front | :31:06. | :31:14. | |
of a global TV audience. When we go to World Cups, there are so many | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
people in the competition, quite often these guys, people like | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
Njisane, he has been severed at a World Cup and here he is fighting | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
for a bronze. That is the thin by the Olympic Games, it should be for | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
the best riders in the world, it is the pinnacle of the sport and I | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
think the best riders in the sport should get to fight. We do not want | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
the world championships to be seen as the pinnacle because it will | :31:40. | :31:46. | |
tarnish the Olympic Games. So Bauge against Kenny in the final here | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
this evening. But the lady who has been dubbed Queen Victoria is here | :31:51. | :31:56. | |
on the track now. She is through to the quarter-finals of the women's | :31:56. | :32:06. | |
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Hair opponent is not really a sprint specialist. She has had a | :32:08. | :32:15. | |
few medals but I think Victoria has no problems. Let's see how this one | :32:15. | :32:20. | |
pans out. Once again, it is the best of three. Back to you hue and | :32:20. | :32:30. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :32:30. | :33:16. | |
here, leading this one out. Victoria is saying, if you are | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
giving me space, I will start accelerating and see how much rope | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
you are prepared to give me. She has taken it down to the bottom of | :33:23. | :33:29. | |
the track, weaving around. She has to be vigilant. She cannot afford | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
to make any serious mistakes. Surely, the sheer size of engine | :33:34. | :33:44. | |
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will win this for Pendleton. Pendleton will be aware of how good | :33:45. | :33:55. | |
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her opponent is. Their accelerating down the back straight. Pendleton | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
is at the front with the greatest strength. The crowd are loving it. | :34:01. | :34:10. | |
Pendleton takes it. She is such a cute tactician. It is hard to know | :34:10. | :34:20. | |
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what to do against that. No options there was no way at all that | :34:34. | :34:44. | |
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Again, tactically very strong. Vicky was dominating the track. | :34:47. | :34:55. | |
Absolutely. They were riding around the lap. She accelerated and held | :34:55. | :35:00. | |
her and there. One of the things we have been enjoying his checking | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
Twitter because track cycling is something that many people only see | :35:05. | :35:12. | |
four years. Many people on Twitter are saying, why don't you just go | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
off as quick as you can. Can you put a few people out of their | :35:15. | :35:22. | |
misery? Three laps for the women, that is probably going on a 50 | :35:22. | :35:26. | |
seconds, that is a long time. As soon as you start pushing really | :35:26. | :35:32. | |
hard, your energy systems are being drained dramatically. You will last | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
20 seconds at full on gas and then you will start to fatigue. As long | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
as that rider can get behind you, they are saving about 30 % in | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
energy. Then as soon as you started tier, they will go past the. We | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
have seen some people who have gone from the gun. It has happened a | :35:51. | :35:57. | |
couple of times. Somebody tried it against Chris Hoy not too long ago. | :35:57. | :36:03. | |
It does happen. But you really have to catch that person not looking. | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
If they see it coming, they will latch on to a wheel and sit there | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
and let you do the work and then pass. There you go, questions | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
answered. Your thoughts on the form of Victoria Pendleton. She is in | :36:17. | :36:21. | |
cruise control right now, not even trying. Make sure you join us later | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
on because the women's omnium is about to hot up and we will seek | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
Jason Kenny riding for that gold. Sue, another exciting afternoon in | :36:30. | :36:36. | |
the velodrome but I gather excitement elsewhere as well. | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
Yes, we are going to head over to Greenwich Park because another gold | :36:40. | :36:45. | |
medal was decided in be Team showjumping. There were two teams | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
tied for gold and silver, the Netherlands and Great Britain. All | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
four members of the team took part in the jump off. Quite simply, it | :36:53. | :37:03. | |
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So much experience here, he will want to put it all to use. He is | :37:26. | :37:36. | |
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ground. He needs to stay clear now. He is going very wide up to this | :37:47. | :37:57. | |
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oxer. Just the double and the last to jump for team gold. Down to | :38:03. | :38:13. | |
Tower Bridge for gold. This could be the first goal for Great Britain, | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
and Britain have got gold! Up come the arms. What a tremendous round | :38:19. | :38:28. | |
for Peter Charles. The round of his life! It has not gone well for him | :38:28. | :38:33. | |
before. The man for the occasion has won gulled. Unbelievable | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
pressure and the coolest man in the stadium was Peter Charles. Foot | :38:37. | :38:47. | |
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perfect, what a piece of riding. The team leader, the team captain, | :38:48. | :38:58. | |
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Nick Skelton, you have an Olympic It has taken me 54 years. I'm | :38:59. | :39:05. | |
speechless. Unbelievable. Was it easier being in their yourself than | :39:06. | :39:11. | |
watching Peter? I wish I could have gone four times. The lads have done | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
great, absolutely brilliant. Chief and for you, given the carry you | :39:15. | :39:20. | |
have had and the injuries you have had, this is extraordinary. I know. | :39:20. | :39:24. | |
I have got a wonderful horse, wonderful owners, a dream come true. | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
And you could have individual gold? Absolutely brilliant, great for the | :39:29. | :39:35. | |
country, great for our sport, it has taken all these years. | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
Well done for Nick Skelton! What a story that is. His 6th Olympic | :39:39. | :39:44. | |
Games. He has never got above 5th before. But he has come here and | :39:44. | :39:50. | |
won his first Olympic medal and it is gold. The first one for 60 years. | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
So cool under pressure. That takes Great Britain on to 17 gold medals | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
at these Games and maybe another to come at the velodrome later on. If | :39:59. | :40:08. | |
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we can get back there and we -- we You have had plenty of Olympic | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
experience and you know what it is like to have a gold medal in your | :40:14. | :40:19. | |
hand. How do you rate these games? You have been here with the | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
American team? Like I put on Twitter, I have been overwhelmed, | :40:23. | :40:29. | |
more so from the volunteers and the staff. Everyone has been so polite, | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
so friendly. Just the atmosphere, you can feel that energy just | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
walking around the shopping centre here. Unbelievable. Even the | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
weather's helping us out a bit. There is a bit of sun here and | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
there. I have been blown away. I'm fortunate, I didn't think I would | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
see a summer games in my home town. It has been fantastic. Even though | :40:51. | :41:01. | |
you're starting to sound like an American! We have spoken that the | :41:01. | :41:08. | |
volcano Drem has left a lasting impression. I know you were in the | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
stadium. I know Ed Clancy was saying you will be riding in Rio. | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
Maybe that is news to you. No it wasn't news to me. But it is news | :41:18. | :41:24. | |
to me that it is creating an impression among the other riders. | :41:24. | :41:30. | |
That is great to know that every cyclist. When are we going to see | :41:30. | :41:35. | |
cycling on breakfast television a few years ago? It shows the | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
interest there. It shows the interest across all sports. We're | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
doing particularly well. And we have won 17 gold medals and we will | :41:44. | :41:50. | |
win more. As a small nation, it is proud to be part of it. Our first | :41:50. | :41:57. | |
road race world champion since 1965 wins on the Tour de France. How big | :41:57. | :42:05. | |
is the hole left by an lemp medal. In terms of as a professional road | :42:05. | :42:11. | |
cyclist, road cycling, profession ls couldn't compete until 1996 in | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
the tradition, the Olympics had never figured too high. As a | :42:16. | :42:22. | |
British citizen and as a patriotic man, it is a big thing. The | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
Olympics are a big thing when you're British. On a personal level, | :42:27. | :42:36. | |
on a professional level it is not too big. Well I was saying about | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
borrowing Geraint Thomas's medal. He didn't have a photo with it, | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
because he wants one of his own. Now it is Jason Kenny with his eyes | :42:44. | :42:53. | |
on the prize. He will rise -- ride in the sprint final against Gregory | :42:53. | :43:01. | |
Bauge. Let's get to know the man behind the mask. Here he comes, | :43:01. | :43:07. | |
beginning to turn on the style. Oh he has got it. Gold medal number | :43:07. | :43:13. | |
four. Chris Hoy. He will be the best in the world in a short space | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
of time. This is the man that is going to win in London. He is over | :43:17. | :43:23. | |
the top and down the finishing straight, Kenny takes it. He beats | :43:23. | :43:28. | |
the Olympic champion, Sir Chris Hoy. I wouldn't want to be the first to | :43:28. | :43:34. | |
tell Chris Hoy that she is not going ride in the Olympics. I gave | :43:34. | :43:40. | |
my best, but Jason was going better in Melbourne and he has carried on | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
that improvement until now and he has done well. I don't want to jinx | :43:45. | :43:50. | |
him, but he is going to be up there and he is our best chance of a gold. | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
It is a shame only one person can ride. But once you have accepted | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
that, it is just sport and the way it is. We have got to get on with | :43:59. | :44:05. | |
it now. How did they give you the news? I just got called in for a | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
meeting and said I have been selected for the sprint. I thought | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
I was in trouble. Because I usually am when I get called in for a | :44:13. | :44:19. | |
meeting. So it was nice that I wasn't getting shouted at. There | :44:19. | :44:28. | |
isn't a big man to beat and that is Bhuj. Bauge on his day is | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
phenomenal and he has proved to be head and shoulders above everyone | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
in the strength department. But we have been working hard and we have | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
made some massive gains and hopefully we will be in a place | :44:39. | :44:45. | |
where we can race him and hopefully beat him. There is something | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
appealing about Jason Kenny. You have ridden with him. He is such a | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
quiet guy. What is he like away from the cameras. He is the same. I | :44:53. | :45:01. | |
roomed with him prior to to go to Beijing. A very nice guy, like your | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
average kid off the street. He has worked his way up the ranks in the | :45:06. | :45:11. | |
team. The funniest thing is he walks so slow. It is hilarious. | :45:11. | :45:16. | |
rides so fast? Yes. He was riding his bike towards the velodrome and | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
he passed me. But I caught him up as he was going over the bridge and | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
I was close to him and we had a chat. We were walking and he is so | :45:26. | :45:32. | |
slow. I put a Twitter out there, I said to Ian, I announced he is | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
walking very slow. So he is going to be very fast. He is conserving | :45:37. | :45:42. | |
his energy for hen he needs it and when he needs it is when he is up | :45:42. | :45:45. | |
against Gregory Bauge. You mentioned what happened at the | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
worlds. We should see it for ourselves. This is awe dishes | :45:49. | :45:59. | |
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sprinting. Bauge is a big guy. He uses his energy and his lactic acid | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
levels fill up. If he gets the gap. He has a gap that Bauge can't get | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
in the slip stream and Jason went and it will take so much energy out | :46:12. | :46:18. | |
of boith. But Jason can recover for the next round. It is the best of | :46:18. | :46:24. | |
three and he has to go up a few minutes later. If Jason can wipe | :46:24. | :46:31. | |
his energy level's out. But it is not just about speed. You have got | :46:31. | :46:37. | |
to stick by the rules and despite that ride, Jason was disqualified. | :46:37. | :46:43. | |
We saw him popping out of lane. didn't try to do it as deliberate | :46:43. | :46:49. | |
as that. It took the speed out of Bauge and the picture on their | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
faces was excellent. It hurts. looked at first that Bauge didn't | :46:55. | :47:00. | |
get going. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Jason set out to do | :47:00. | :47:04. | |
that and would have put on appropriate gear and the smaller | :47:04. | :47:10. | |
than what he usually races on. Bauge rides big gears. So Kenny is | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
accelerating and Bauge is trying to get this huge gear going. So does | :47:14. | :47:21. | |
Jason Kenny do the same thing in the final? I wouldn't put it past | :47:21. | :47:27. | |
him. Not in the first ride. Maybe these two know something? But if | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
you stick us with, you can see the final in the men's sprint. You will | :47:31. | :47:36. | |
see it after this race, because this is the sec event in the omnium | :47:36. | :47:44. | |
and we will show you stapbgsd. Laura Trott is competing for | :47:44. | :47:45. | |
Laura Trott is competing for Britain. The aim is to have the | :47:45. | :47:52. | |
least number of points at the end of the six events. We're going to | :47:52. | :47:58. | |
join the points race and our commentators, Chris Boardman and | :47:58. | :48:04. | |
Hugh Porter. COMMENTATOR: There are three laps to go to the first | :48:04. | :48:14. | |
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sprint in this women's points race. Laura trot has made a great start. | :48:22. | :48:29. | |
Sanchez of France is second and Edmondson is third. Is in is the | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
first sprint, it has been a very pedestrian pace. Nobody wanted to | :48:33. | :48:43. | |
:48:43. | :48:47. | ||
take it on. Now at the front from Spain is Oliver Rhea. On the line | :48:47. | :48:57. | |
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five, three, two and one. The Canadian taking with her Edmondson | :48:57. | :49:03. | |
of Australia. These are the first two over the line. Edmondson gets | :49:03. | :49:12. | |
the five-three. Looked the two going to the Spanish rider. Laura | :49:12. | :49:18. | |
Trott happy to monitor affairs. Often the people with a breakaway, | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
they don't figure, because they have expended a lot of energy. She | :49:22. | :49:32. | |
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rolls through to keep the speed high. Happy to watch and wait. | :49:32. | :49:38. | |
is the rider with the most points that is the winner of the second | :49:38. | :49:48. | |
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discipline. If they gain a lap, they get a 20-point bonus. That is | :49:51. | :50:00. | |
often what decides it. Edmondson denied witten the five points. Now | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
on the first watching is Laura Trott and as we have said she may | :50:05. | :50:09. | |
well find the burden of being the world champion a challenge, because | :50:09. | :50:15. | |
nobody will want to go with her. She has demonstrated with that | :50:15. | :50:18. | |
blistering first lap, flying lap, that she did for the opening event | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
that she is on form. You may find that when the attacking starts, | :50:22. | :50:30. | |
they will look to thror do the claising. -- to do the chasing. Her | :50:30. | :50:36. | |
form is there. Four laps is the real danger point. That is where if | :50:36. | :50:41. | |
somebody attacks you won't have the legs left to recover. They're | :50:41. | :50:47. | |
watching each other like hawks. Nobody at all wants to ignite the | :50:47. | :50:52. | |
burners. Sarah Hammer, the American, four times the world individual | :50:52. | :50:58. | |
pursuit champion and one who likes to get stuck in. It looks as though | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
Hammer is likely to set the pace here. In the inside Wild of the | :51:03. | :51:11. | |
Netherlands as well. The way Hammer normally whips is to wind it up and | :51:11. | :51:17. | |
go for long ones. This isn't a great style of race for Laura. She | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
would like to see an attacking race. It is a dangerous way the ride, | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
they're going around the banking slowly and it is easy to slide down. | :51:26. | :51:30. | |
Nobody wants to attack. Quite unusual at this level of racing | :51:30. | :51:36. | |
that nobody wants to take it on yet. Lee of Korea is near the front. | :51:36. | :51:46. | |
:51:46. | :51:47. | ||
Whitten is there and the Spaniard. It looks like somebody is beginning | :51:47. | :51:52. | |
to gather themselves the Belarus rider has come alongside the | :51:52. | :51:57. | |
outside and she may launch herself into an attack. She is trying to | :51:57. | :52:03. | |
position herself for the next sprint. So is Gar see yafplt what a | :52:03. | :52:10. | |
steady way of approaching the sprint this is. They're dropping | :52:10. | :52:16. | |
their foot on the pedal. Two to go for the second sprint. 5 hundred | :52:16. | :52:22. | |
metres to go to decide the points. On the head is Lee. But Trott is | :52:22. | :52:27. | |
moving through and the crowd are getting animated here. Laura Trott | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
has Wild on her shoulder. But she is in a good position. She can get | :52:31. | :52:38. | |
a run for the line. And Trott has gained a perfect lead. And that is | :52:38. | :52:44. | |
what the world champion wants. Laura trot has read the move | :52:44. | :52:49. | |
perfectly. Can she get around the lead out rider and get the five | :52:49. | :52:55. | |
points? Oh very close on the line. She may well have got those five | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
points. We will wait for confrlation, but she road -- | :53:01. | :53:09. | |
confirmation, but she rode that beautifully. Trott has attacked. | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
Edmondson spotted it and you can see Trott is going, come on, I'm | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
ready if you are. But it is too early in the race. Trott did get | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
the sprint. It was close. She pushed Garcia into second. Thiss | :53:23. | :53:29. | |
how close it was. Look at that. That is the time to launch your | :53:29. | :53:36. | |
effort in the closing stages. That is what Trott did. She play be | :53:36. | :53:42. | |
young, but that belays the way she rides. There is the coach. He is | :53:42. | :53:46. | |
happy. An attack goes underneert. Once they roll up to the | :53:46. | :53:50. | |
opportunity, they allow the opportunities. It is the Polish | :53:50. | :53:57. | |
ride we are D'Hoore of Belgium. They're straight into their pace- | :53:57. | :54:03. | |
making. Some hesitation has given them some daylight. There is the | :54:03. | :54:08. | |
result of sprint number two and we have now a brace of riders tying on | :54:08. | :54:13. | |
five and the first two sprints. Those two riders will with -- be | :54:13. | :54:20. | |
the top top contenders at the end. Laura Trott is to the head. | :54:20. | :54:24. | |
Everyone goes with her and says, we don't want to do the chasing. She | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
has got to bluff. All the riders have something to lose and they | :54:28. | :54:32. | |
have all swung to the top of the track. That is the point your were | :54:32. | :54:37. | |
making. Now let's look at this. In the back group we have Edmondson | :54:37. | :54:41. | |
and Whitten. So there are two big favourites there. The American | :54:41. | :54:47. | |
Hammer is there as well. And we have Sanchez at the front. Sanchez | :54:47. | :54:57. | |
:54:57. | :55:21. | ||
had a good time trial and is Sharakova, she has seen the danger | :55:21. | :55:27. | |
and she is taking Tara Whitten with terrors well. They have been paired | :55:27. | :55:34. | |
in the peloton. Those five are riding a very steady pace behind. | :55:34. | :55:40. | |
They will keep riding consistently here. Yes, they are in the sprint | :55:40. | :55:46. | |
lap now. The Belgian is leading and she is being challenged as they | :55:46. | :55:53. | |
come up to the line. This is where the points will be decided. They | :55:53. | :56:00. | |
have gained a laugh as well, so that is a very useful move. Hammer | :56:00. | :56:10. | |
:56:10. | :56:29. | ||
has gone straight on the attack for a while. They picked up the points | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
for the lap, then closed down the 20 metres to bridge to the back of | :56:33. | :56:41. | |
the peloton. That means they got the five, and the 24 gaining the | :56:41. | :56:51. | |
:56:51. | :57:00. | ||
lap. A very dangerous for reforming at the front, allowing Tara Whitten | :57:00. | :57:06. | |
to get off the front, and Sarah Hammer is absolutely... Well, it is | :57:06. | :57:12. | |
such a dangerous move. Laura Trott has spotted the danger, but she is | :57:12. | :57:16. | |
so heavily marked. Everyone is trying to raise the pace. If they | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
don't get on top of this quickly, it could be a very dangerous move. | :57:21. | :57:27. | |
If these three are allowed to get some points, it could have an | :57:27. | :57:32. | |
effect on the overall standings. These are the big players for the | :57:32. | :57:42. | |
:57:42. | :57:48. | ||
final positions. Tara Whitten Prom with the best omnium rider we have | :57:48. | :57:58. | |
:57:58. | :58:06. | ||
had. An attack off the front again. Wojtyra, trying to win this race. | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
Everybody looking around at each other. Nobody wants to do the | :58:11. | :58:20. | |
:58:21. | :58:22. | ||
chasing. This is what happens when there are just two or three riders. | :58:22. | :58:27. | |
And that has now been tidied up for us. Because of the points they have | :58:27. | :58:31. | |
picked up in the race, in means they have slotted into the overall | :58:31. | :58:38. | |
standings. Hammer at the moment is lying in equal seventh, and Laura | :58:38. | :58:43. | |
Trott is equal ninth. Come on, Laura Trott, she will have to get | :58:43. | :58:49. | |
on terms with these riders. If she can't gain allowed herself, that is | :58:49. | :58:59. | |
:58:59. | :59:05. | ||
as high as you can finish. -- gain a lap. The quartet have slipped | :59:05. | :59:10. | |
away. If she was to finish in ninth place in this event, added to the | :59:10. | :59:16. | |
first place you got in the time- trial, it would give her an overall | :59:16. | :59:23. | |
tally of 10. That would mean Sarah Hammer and Tara Whitten could leap | :59:23. | :59:28. | |
over her. At the moment, they are lying in seventh place and third | :59:28. | :59:33. | |
place. It is not desperate if it remained like that. They are | :59:33. | :59:37. | |
getting a chance to recover now, which again does not work in the | :59:37. | :59:44. | |
favour of Laura Trott as another attack goes from the front of the | :59:44. | :59:54. | |
:59:54. | :00:12. | ||
bunch. The latest attacker off the front having a crack is Romanyuta. | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
Just attacking ones and twos all of the time. Laura Trott has an | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
opportunity now, spotted straight away by Tara Whitten. She has got | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
herself on the front foot by gaining a lap so she can ride | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
defensively. This race is becoming very complicated. If I can try to | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
simplify it, this is one of the reasons it was dropped actually | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
from the Olympic Games. The ultimate aim is to obviously sprint | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
and contest each of the sprints which take place every 10 laps. It | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
you gain a lap, you get a point bonus. We have had two groups in | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
different times going away. At the moment Laura Trott is so heavily | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
marked out, the only points she has gained is won by right in the | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
sprint. She has got to try to work out a formula to get clear to get | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
that lap back. So a Sarah Hammer he is becoming stronger on the outside. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
She recovers so well, and Laura Trott has gone after her. Laura | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Trott is now chasing down Sarah Hammer, and that is the head of the | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
race. Hammer get the five and Laura Trott gets the three. He she can | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
:01:49. | :01:56. | ||
keep going, she really needs to try to get a lap back. Annette | :01:56. | :02:06. | |
:02:06. | :02:22. | ||
Edmondson gets the two and Kiesanowski one get the one. We | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
must stress have to remember this is a competition of six events, six | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
different disciplines, and if you win one of them you gain a point. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
You are up your points and it is the rider with the least amount of | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
points after the six disciplines that is crowned the winner. There | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
are two very happy ladies but let's get back to the points race and | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
Tara Whitten started in seventh place in this because she was | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
actually in seventh place in the time-trial. At the moment she is | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
lying fifth in this points race, so if it was to remain like that their | :03:07. | :03:17. | |
cumulative points would be 12. She is sitting 10th in the moment. All | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
is not lost but you have got to try to be consistent. She would have | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
liked a better performance in this particular discipline, but at the | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
moment she is almost resigned to having to write this one off. She | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
is not allowed to make a move, everyone is watching her. Sorry, | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
Chris, but it is exactly what you said - her reputation is a burden | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
here because they know she is the red hot favourite, the world | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
champion, so every time she moved they are all over her. It has also | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
been noted that Annette Edmondson has been watching Laura Trott very | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
closely as well. While there have been watching each other, the rest | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
of the world has slipped away so it has neutralised again. I think this | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
was Laura Trott's worst discipline at the World Championships where | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
she didn't figure in the top five, but she still won the title. It is | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
interesting to note that Annette Edmondson his 11th place in this | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
:04:32. | :04:39. | ||
race, one. Just one point shy of Laura Trott. Laura Trott is already | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
ahead so it doesn't matter now. It is not depriving her of opposition | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
:04:53. | :05:01. | ||
in this race. So, 21. With just one point between them, she has to | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
figure in these sprints or she will drop another place. A look at Laura | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
:05:16. | :05:18. | ||
Trott, she is riding the wheel of Tara Whitten. Remember, what it | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
means now it is that Annette Edmondson and Laura Trott are tying | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
:05:33. | :05:33. | ||
on the same points. They married will now because she was one point | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
shy of Laura Trott. There is the result, these are the overall | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
standings. We are trying to simplify this as much as we can. I | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
know this raises difficult to follow. A Laura Trott he needs to | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
better the Australian if she can. As more riders slipped away off the | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
road, that might help Laura Trott because it will take the points a | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
way of course. The Laura Trott is still intense place equal with | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Annette Edmondson. If they are equal at the end, Laura Trott will | :06:09. | :06:18. | |
be given the sport. For that's right, it goes to count back to the | :06:18. | :06:28. | |
:06:28. | :06:34. | ||
sprints, where you finished. This is astonishing. Annette Edmondson | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
chasing this one down. She wants the opportunity to score more | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
:06:47. | :06:51. | ||
points. The they are not persisting with the pacemaking. If they do | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
:07:01. | :07:01. | ||
swing up, now would be a good opportunity to attack. The two | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
riders are just off the front here. 14 laps to go, four away from the | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
penultimate sprint, and at the moment the Korean is leading. They | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
have got a handsome lead. The thing is, it is so tactical this race, | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
this is why we have had the situation with little groups | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
developing. Tara Whitten in shot now, lying in second place at the | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
:07:42. | :07:55. | ||
moment. Wojtyra could win this. has certainly had an aggressive | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
ride, taking advantage of the fact the other riders are wary of each | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
other. Tara Whitten has managed to slip away from the others. We have | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
these two riders ahead now, as they are approaching the back straight, | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
the penultimate sprint. Annette Edmondson has come to the front of | :08:20. | :08:30. | |
:08:30. | :08:31. | ||
the peloton again. She has got to come round. I think she did it, she | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
got over Kiesanowski, but not Annette Edmondson so it means the | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
Australian, Annette Edmondson, was third, so she got the two points | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
:08:54. | :08:55. | ||
and Laura Trott got one. It could all come down to the last sprint. | :08:55. | :09:05. | |
gasp from the crowd as the riders nearly touched wheels. We said this | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
might happen. She is an out and out sprinter. She was lucky to hold | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
that. How on earth did Kiesanowski stay up right there? She brushed | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
the back wheel of the Australian but nobody came down. If Laura | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
Trott could figure strongly in the final sprint and get herself five | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
points, she would go ahead of Annette Edmondson. We were just | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
saying, she is an out and out sprinter so no surprise she had a | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
great performance in the time-trial and these are the events in which | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
she will really struggle. Just one sprint to go in this race. Tara | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Whitten is leading clearly. She started with seven points after the | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
time trial. I can tell you that Annette Edmondson, the Australian, | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
is in 10th place at the moment and Laura Trott is in ninth place so | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
she needs to beat Annette Edmondson if she wants to remain ahead of her | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
:10:22. | :10:28. | ||
in the overall standings. Five laps on the wheel of Edmondson. She | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
needs to go on the offensive. reference to Hammer, the American, | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
she is three points behind Whitten in the points race. She starting | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
here in fifth position after the time trials. It could be Hammer | :10:42. | :10:51. | |
ahead of Whitten. She is lining up for this next sprint. She likes to | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
wind it up and no one can get around here. Ed monthson is in the | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
worst position. She is stuck in the wheels low in the track and Trott | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
has a clear run on the outside. She could steal a march on Edmondson as | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
they have two to go. Look out around the outside here. They're | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
trying to come around and steal some points. Two laps to go. Here | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
they go. Warming up for the final sprint and Whitten comes over the | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
top. She is leading this points race and gone for an early strike. | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
Trott is coming through. They have wound up the pace early. One lap to | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
go. Sharakova over Whitten. Brilliant riding by Trott. There is | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
a good chance she could get second in this sprint. What has she got? | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
Sharakova is leading and was it trot snt it was so close. That is | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
the final sprint and very difficult to split them. What it does mean is | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
that Trott will go ahead of Edmondson in the final standings in | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
the points race. Without gaining that lap, that is the best position | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
she could hope for. It came down to the final sprint. Let's look at the | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
result. It is very tight. There is Laura Trott. She timed her effort | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
perfectly and she is a very smart rider. She saw the wheel that she | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
was going to follow and she did. It was a matter of did she beat | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
Sharakova on the line for that final sprint. That has been | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
rejigged and law tra Trott did get that tenth position. She was only | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
eighth at the World Championships when she went on to win. Probably | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
her worst discipline out of the way. That is no at bad finishing | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
position for her, tenth as we look at some of the images. We will | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
confirm the overall standings after that final sprint. But Hammer and | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
Whitten are figuring strongly. have got something of a gift and | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
were allowed to infiltrate, Whitten was able to infiltrate that | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
breakaway. Sarah Hammer did well to gain that lap. That is going to | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
:13:34. | :13:34. | ||
keep this competition I think very close all the way to the finish now. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
Laura trot didn't want to lose that lap. Everyone was waiting for her | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
to do the chasing. If she had, she would have been finished and they | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
would have attacked her more. So a victim of her own success. We see | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
the photograph. It was close. 4,000th of a second splitting them. | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
How valuable will that point be at the end? Here it is now. I think we | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
have got the results. A chance to see the finish again. That is what | :14:10. | :14:19. | |
4,000th of a second looks like! Laura Trott had us gasping there. | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
Sharakova must have thought she has got this. But here comes Laura, | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
just beating her. Edmondson had ridden so well. She was bobgsd in | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
and could not get out. -- boxed in. So Laura is in third now. We're | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
going to confirm the result. There it is. Wojtyra was the winner of | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
the points race. Whitten in third. D'Hoore and Hammer and Trott tenth. | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
We will need to skrol the points on. And you will see that Trott is | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
still well in contention. We will show you the overall standings as | :15:07. | :15:16. | |
Wojtyra rolls away. She gained a lap and stayed clear. Whitten tying | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
with Hammer for the lead. Trott is with Hammer for the lead. Trott is | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
third. We know the aim of the game to have the fewest points and Laura | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
still in contention and it is not something that she excels in, that | :15:32. | :15:40. | |
race. Yes, she started off well. But I think it took its toll at the | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
end. You culled see every sprint she is up there and got the best | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
result out of the people who didn't gate lap in the race. That showed | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
she is sprinting well and should go well in the other race. The points | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
race is different. It is a weird race. It is easy to make it neutral | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
and you could see Laura and Edmondson marking each other out of | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
it. But a points race, because there is a sprintive ten laps, you | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
can't chase down and you have to kaep it going. And the race should | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
evolve like that. That put them on the back foot. But she is in the | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
top ten. She hasn't lost as many points as kwhransy lost. So Laura | :16:28. | :16:36. | |
has made sure her nearest rivals, they were her first priority and | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
allowing others to breakaway is less of a concern. Yes you're | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
keeping your eyes on those that you think later on tomorrow, who you | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
will be fighting for medals. It is quite confusing for people at home. | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
But it is difficult, you're trying to balance what you can do | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
physically with what you need to do in the events that are still to | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
come and marking people out if they're your rival and keeping your | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
eyes on the bigger picture. Is it as confusing when you're in the | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
race? No when I watch at mom on television, the points race you | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
can't follow it. Even when you're in the stands it is hard to follow. | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
The easiest place to follow it is in the race. You know where people | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
are and how many laps you have done and where people are on the track. | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
So it is easy to follow there. understand. I think as far as Laura | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
goes, she is will be happy with that race. Now we go on to things | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
that suit her better. Yes the better vents for Laura coming up. | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
We have proved, we have done the maths on this and basically if you | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
can finish fifth, within third to fifth in each event, you can win. | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
It is about the average. Even to the end that sprint could have a | :18:02. | :18:12. | |
huge bearing on the way it pans out. It didn't affect the result there. | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
Whereas the decathlon or the heptathlon track in track and field, | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
it is about your individual score in each event. On the omnium in the | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
velodrome it is about your position in the actual race. It makes no | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
difference if you get more or less points in a points race. It is your | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
finishing position that will affect the outcome. This is that final | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
sprint and you saw Laura just manage to take that final sprint. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
But not the most crucial thing in the race. But I hope we have | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
managed to show how confusing the points race can be. So Laura Trott | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
still in contention. Somebody else with his eyes on the prize is Jason | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
Kenny. He is just running around preparing himself, gearing up to | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
take Bauge, a man who knows what it takes to win the World Championship. | :19:09. | :19:19. | |
:19:19. | :19:34. | ||
Now to celebrate another medal for sprint. Just being swro Dawesed is | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
-- introduced is Phillip and his opponent from Australia is Shane | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
Perkins, the 25-year-old Australian. On paper, you would have to favour | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
Perkins. As really Phillip is a newcomer to us. He has won a gold | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
in the Pan Ams, but Perkins has more experience. But who knows? | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
has been up against some of the world's best sprinters. It has been | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
a fantastic learning opportunity. He must be delighted to get through | :20:13. | :20:22. | |
to a medal ride off and he has a good shot at one as well. Perkins | :20:22. | :20:31. | |
may need to take the lead. Try to dictate the race to the Australian. | :20:31. | :20:40. | |
The spripters are razor sharp. The way they react. There is not a lot | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
in it between the two opponents. Evenly matched in style actually. | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
Yes. And of course always in the best of a three contest, it's such | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
a morale booster to draw first blad. Perkins still leading this one out. | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
Two more laps to go. No commitment at the moment. Just the finessing, | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
trying to outwit each other. Perkins looks as if he would like | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
to keep his opponent in the second position. It is harder then you | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
have the long way to come around. But this is the attack. Oh yes, a | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
good move by Phillip of Trinidad. He caught Perkins napping. Can he | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
hold off the challenge? He is accelerating. Look at this now, | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
Perkins having to close down. As they come into the finishing line. | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
Can Perkins do it? I think Perkins did it. The final lunge for the | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
line. But what a great race by Phillip. He really did commit to | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
that move. Perkins thought it was a feint and didn't accelerate and | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
found himself where he didn't want to be fpblt but he didn't panic and | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
in the end he had superior physical form. I hope we can see that again. | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
Because the young man from Trinidad rord is well, but didn't have the | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
power to hold him off. Here it is. Out of the saddle down the back | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
straight. I was thinking he may come out of the sprinter's lane. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
But he knew he would be penalised for that. It came down to | :22:26. | :22:36. | |
horsepower. But a great race. Australian coach indicating how | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
close it was. And we can confirm the result for you. Shane Perkins | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
goes one up. Now we wait for this. This is the one we have been | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
waiting for. This is a repeat of World Championship final that took | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
place in Melbourne earlier this year. It was Gregory Bauge that won | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
on this occasion. I think this is a better Jason Kenny that we're | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
seeing. He was fast in qualification. I think he has got | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
the edge this time. Look at the support he has got. Kenny, you're | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
:23:26. | :23:33. | ||
right there. The 24-year-old tr Bolton. A double Olympic gold medal | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
winner. There is the coach, who worked out how he thought he could | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
beat Bauge in Melbourne and he nearly did it. It was only an | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
infringement that cost him. And there three times the world | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
champion, Gregory Bauge. A big change in British sprinting when | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
the German world champion came across. Physically he got on the | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
track with them and taught them the craft. They were great at | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
conditioning, but they added that element and Jason Kenny has spent | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
some years in high competition. Very experienced now. This is race | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
one in the ride for the gold and silver medals in the men's sprint. | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Bauge at the front. Three times the world sprint champion, against | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
Jason Kenny of Britain. This is a repeat of world final that took | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
place earlier this year. Kenny already with a gold from these | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
games. Coming in that world record ride in the team sprint. But | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
conditiony I think in even better form than he was in those World | :24:48. | :24:58. | |
:24:58. | :25:08. | ||
time Jason Kenny caught the French man by surprise, almost got away | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
with it. He crossed the line first, it was closed between them, but now | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
they are so evenly matched it is hard to know how they can ride. | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
:25:29. | :25:29. | ||
Similar abilities as well. Gregory Bauge was given a fight when Jason, | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
:25:39. | :25:42. | ||
a -- Jason Kenny rode his fastest time ever. Great Britain have | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
nailed the gold once with Chris Hoy in Beijing. We always knew this | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
would be a tactical affair. Greg Greene would like to keep it made | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
and to jump hard. Jason Kenny doesn't want that to happen so he | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
is winding it up early with a laugh and a half to go now. Go credit for | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
the adrenalin rush. Gregory Bauge still at the front, and he is | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
beginning to inject pace. They come up to the white strip, the 200m | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
marker. Here comes Jason Kenny right on the shoulder, into the | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
finishing straight here. Shoulder to shoulder, Jason Kenny takes it. | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
He wrote that magnificently. just didn't take his foot off the | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
gas that tall. Gregory Bauge tried to control that race and the | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
mistake came when Jason Kenny threw him some bait, Gregory Bauge went | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
down to the bottom of the track, Jason Kenny kept his height and | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
forced the French man to lead him out. Beautifully done. Let's take | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
another look at it. Jason Kenny is literally on fire. Pin-sharp, and | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
not afraid of the reputation of Gregory Bauge. Acceleration down | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
the back straight. He forced the French man to lead out, went into | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
the slipstream, and it was all over with a lap to go. Even though he | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
was on his shoulder on the final bend, he was carrying the speed. | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
What kind of psychological bonus will that be? Gregory Bauge will be | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
warming down, talking to the coach, and doubt will be in his mind. | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
is happy with that. One thing that will not happen at the World | :27:41. | :27:51. | |
:27:51. | :27:55. | ||
Championship, Gregory Bauge will Sport is all about talent, form, | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
and momentum. At the moment all three are with Jason Kenny, and the | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
same goes for Victoria Pendleton. She took the victory earlier on | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
against Olga Panarina, and Anna against Olga Panarina, and Anna | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
Meares also won her first heat. Here she goes taking to the track. | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
We are now enjoying the quarter- finals for the team sprint. | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
Victoria Pendleton is up next. Out onto the track, here it is Olga | :28:27. | :28:34. | |
Panarina. She is one down, and Victoria Pendleton, the defending | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
Olympic champion, she has been six times the winner of the world title, | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
and when you think this is her signature event and it is her | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
signing off event as well because she is retiring after these | :28:48. | :28:55. | |
Olympics. What a way to retire, if she gets the gold here, she has | :28:55. | :29:05. | |
:29:05. | :29:20. | ||
been a triple Olympic champion. Her opponent, Olga Panarina from a low | :29:21. | :29:30. | |
:29:31. | :29:33. | ||
-- Belarus. It is hard to know what Olga Panarina can do here. I think | :29:33. | :29:41. | |
you are right. Raced two getting under way. Victoria Pendleton right | :29:41. | :29:49. | |
into the wheel of her opponent. Just a few laps away from a semi- | :29:49. | :29:59. | |
:29:59. | :30:02. | ||
final appearance. I must admit, throughout the competition she has | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
been shining like a beacon. Her performances have just steeples | :30:08. | :30:16. | |
over the competition. 31 year-old still in second place, but that is | :30:16. | :30:22. | |
just how she likes it. We can see that she is keeping the height and | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
the second-placed rider always does that. I am going to keep the height, | :30:27. | :30:34. | |
then I can take you by surprise. Olga Panarina hasn't noticed the | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
acceleration of Victoria Pendleton. She will come straight around on | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
the back straight now. She completely missed that. We to his | :30:43. | :30:49. | |
academic, isn't it? She tickles the paddles, than Queen Victoria moves | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
into the semi-finals. It couldn't have been more comfortable than | :30:55. | :31:05. | |
:31:05. | :31:06. | ||
that. You has -- she has expended very little energy. I don't think | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
there was anything Olga Panarina could have done. She did miss the | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
fact that Victoria Pendleton was holding her height and accelerating | :31:15. | :31:21. | |
as they came into the home straight with a lap to go, and it meant she | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
could drop down in the penultimate banking, accelerate on the back | :31:26. | :31:31. | |
straight, and we around for the final bend. Nothing she could do | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
there. A really good ride for Victoria Pendleton because she gets | :31:37. | :31:47. | |
:31:47. | :31:48. | ||
through with the least expenditure of energy. Coming into the home | :31:48. | :31:58. | |
:31:58. | :31:59. | ||
straight, she was not even wanting to expand that energy. Olga | :31:59. | :32:06. | |
Panarina will go into the ride off for the minor places. On the track, | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
we are looking at Anna Meares, nearest to us, from Australia. | :32:12. | :32:21. | |
is riding against Lyubov Shulika from the Ukraine. Anna Meares is | :32:21. | :32:27. | |
well suited to the Olympics system. Normally the sprinting is very | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
condensed over two days. It is spread out over the Olympic Games, | :32:32. | :32:40. | |
and that will suit her. The more rest she can get, the better. | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
Lyubov Shulika is a strong competitor but Anna Meares should | :32:43. | :32:53. | |
:32:53. | :32:54. | ||
put her way. This is the second heat of the second quarter-final in | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
the women's sprint and there is work to do for Lyubov Shulika | :32:58. | :33:08. | |
:33:08. | :33:09. | ||
because she is trailing Anna Meares 1-0. Anna Meares is the only woman | :33:09. | :33:18. | |
actually to have won every single sprint discipline. 500, keirin, | :33:18. | :33:24. | |
Team sprint, individual sprint, but I must admit her form in the keirin | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
certainly did disappoint me. But her time in qualification here was | :33:28. | :33:34. | |
very quick so it looks very much to me as though she could get through | :33:34. | :33:42. | |
to the concluding stages. That is Anna Meares, just trailing Lyubov | :33:42. | :33:52. | |
:33:52. | :33:56. | ||
Shulika. She comfortably won the first race. Like you said in the | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
previous race, Chris, what could Olga Panarina do to Victoria | :34:01. | :34:06. | |
Pendleton - you ask the same question here? What can Lyubov | :34:06. | :34:13. | |
Shulika do to beat Anna Meares? a lot, really. It has happened many | :34:13. | :34:17. | |
times that the strong competitor has been caught out through | :34:17. | :34:24. | |
complacency. They just drop their guard slightly. These mistakes | :34:24. | :34:34. | |
:34:34. | :34:34. | ||
happen. She is a versatile rider, Lyubov Shulika. She was a member of | :34:34. | :34:40. | |
the Ukrainian team that actually won silver in the world | :34:41. | :34:47. | |
championships in 2008 when they took place in Manchester. She is | :34:47. | :34:53. | |
using her sprinting speed here to try and deny Anna Meares a victory | :34:53. | :35:03. | |
:35:03. | :35:04. | ||
through to the semi-finals. It is just about the limit of the pace | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
when you get to that position on the track. Lyubov Shulika feels as | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
if she has caught Anna Meares napping, but she has seen the move | :35:14. | :35:21. | |
and she is reacting now. Lyubov Shulika is going to go for a | :35:21. | :35:27. | |
complete lap. It is a big ask. Meares is completely confident. You | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
could see from the moment she went, she was happy to let her do that, | :35:32. | :35:42. | |
:35:42. | :36:04. | ||
to roll through. Anna Meares wins No problems for Anna Meares, and as | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
far as Victoria Pendleton is concerned, she strikes again. At | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
the moment the two big sprinting rivals have made it through to the | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
semi-final and you can see that unfolding tomorrow afternoon. Let's | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
talk about that performance from Victoria Pendleton. Once again, her | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
opponent was simply unable to live with her. It has got to be | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
extremely frustrating for the opponents. Great Britain just | :36:32. | :36:38. | |
brings it to the table when it counts. Especially the first and | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
second gear after Beijing, it kind of fell off the mark a little bit, | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
but they were just building and developing stuff ready for this | :36:46. | :36:52. | |
event now. Mentally as well, people at home have got to realise there | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
is so much mental energy, and obviously physical as well, that | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
goes into performing here and you can't do that for four years | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
straight. You have got to take your foot off the accelerator, and build | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
up again, and Victoria is hungry. She can have some dinner now then, | :37:12. | :37:18. | |
because we are about to disappear over to BBC Two and we have Jason | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
Kenny one win away from becoming the Olympic champion, and it is all | :37:21. | :37:28. | |
about how they recover. Absolutely, he might do it in the next round | :37:28. | :37:33. | |
but I doubt it. It is more like they do it in the first one. I | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
think we will see a cat-and-mouse chase again. It was good - he held | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
him on the bank and he knew exactly what he was doing. Let's see what | :37:43. | :37:51. | |
happens. When Mark Cavendish mentions the long one, he means | :37:52. | :37:59. | |
Jason Kenny could possibly go all the way round for an extra lap. | :37:59. | :38:05. | |
That would be incredible. Already Britain has won its 17th | :38:05. | :38:10. | |
medal of these Olympic Games, and before we head over to BBC Two | :38:10. | :38:20. | |
:38:20. | :38:25. | ||
let's show you these pictures from Greenwich Park. A thrilling win, it | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
was wonderful scenes. They held their nerve. Peter Charles was the | :38:30. | :38:36. |