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I would not stray too far from a television set if I were you, | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
because this has all the maybeings as Michelle was saying of another | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
glittering day in the medal front. In the Velodrome, on horse back, | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
potentially the Olympic Stadium and round Hyde Park. Just one more gold | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
would equal -- equal the total number from Beijing and that could | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
come within the next the two hours from a man named Brownlee. But | :00:35. | :00:43. | |
which one? Meet alstir and Jonathan Brownlee. Two brothers from West | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
Yorkshire. Housemates, team-mates, training partners, and rivals. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
These competitive siblings happen to be the world's top two | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
With a stack of impressive results under their belt, both boys will be | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
hoping to reach the podium in London. But stairl's journey to the | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
games hasn't been an easy one. In February, a tear to his Achilles | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
tendon put his out of action while Johnny was winning titles. I wasn't | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
that bad, I was quite glad I found out what it was and got a specific | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
diagnosis. When I got home from ta, a week or two later, I couldn't do | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
much training, I was unhappy, that was a nightmare. I tried to stay ya | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
from him, tried to do different things, when I trained, go out the | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
back door, so it wasn't too obvious. With the Olympics in the back of | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
your head, you are thinking I should be doing everything I can do, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
which makes it worse because you feel about half -- you fill about | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
half an hour doing some ridiculous exercise that probably doesn't make | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
you better. Myself, I have the Olympics to train for and at the | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
same time I am leaving the house thinking I am guilty because | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
Alistair can't go out running but I had to get over that and reel | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
realise I have to be selfish and concentrate on myself. Onanyis | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
about a sympathetic as a plank of wood. It is not as if he helped at | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
all. He would leave without me enif I was 30 seconds late. If I wanted | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
to get fit fast I had to think outside the box, so I often thought | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
about running on an underwater treadmill. I was injury prone and | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
got on with my friend Alec digging a hole in the garden. It gave me | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
manager to do and that was a godsend. They were out there every | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
day from eight in the morning to five in the eve nng, just digging | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
this hole. The hole got bigger and bigger and they didn't realise how | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
big it had to be and how much dirt they had to get out. As soon as I | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
started using it my aChiles started getting less stiff. In June he | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
returned to the global stage in style, with a comfortable victory | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
at the world series event in Kitzbuhel. Both brothers are hoping | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
they can stay focused and give their best performances in the | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
Olympic race. I think we are aware it is the Olympics and trying to | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
get that boost but not getting carried away with the whole | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
experience, knowing we are there for a race and I think it will be | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
especially good for Jonny, because he hasn't been to the Olympics | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
before. What Alistair has said it is different to everything else. It | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
is an amazing opportunity and you have to experience it, you have to | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
love it. It is going to be the best triathlon I will be part of. It | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
can't wait to race it. The Brownlee brothers, Alistair and Johnny | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
ranked one and two in the world. They have dominated the scene but a | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
lady who has dominated the Ironman triathlon scene Chrissie Wellington, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
she is with me to assess the chances of the Brownlee brothers | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
and everybody else. First of all, remind everybody what is involved | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
in this event. OK, a triathlon is a swim, a bike, and a run. It | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
comprises different distance, the triathlon in the Olympics is the | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
Olympic distance triathlon, a 1.5 kilometre swim, it is a 43 | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
kilometre bike, ordinarily a 40 kilometre bike, and then a ten | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
kilometre run and the men and the women race over the same course. | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
You are doing distances which far exceed that in Ironman, in fact you | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
are finishing with a marathon at end of the your race, but there is | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
a subtle difference in the way you approach your races and this sprint | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
format of the triathlon. My race, the iron distance event, 2.4 mile | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
swim. 112 bike, finished off with a marathon is very different. You | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
know the training, and the effort that goes into training for the | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Olympic distance triathlon is no less than the Ironman. They are | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
just, you know, different style of racing. You take nine hours | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
complete, they take round two and we will be watching that carefully | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
today. The Brownlee brothers themselves, 24-year-old, 22-year- | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
old, Alistair is the older of the the two and he is a double World | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Champion. What has given them such a dominance over this event? They | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
do have a stranglehold over the Olympic distance triathlon, they | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
have taken it by storm and they -- their consistency is phenomenal, | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
barring a few periods of injury that Alistair's had. They are very | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
very grounded, they train up in Yorkshire, for the most part. They | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
are capable of racing in, you know, on all terrain, in all conditions, | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
and they have got this will to win, this determination and this | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
incredibly aggressive approach to racing. They have a total disdain | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
for conservative tactics which I enjoy, and it makes for great | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
exciting racesle --ration. In terms of how the other teams view them, | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
they are a threat for gold and silver but everybody else in this | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
field of 55 athletes knows that. How aggressive are the tactics | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
towards them going to be today? Absolutely. The other teams are | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
acutely wear of the dominance of the two Brownlee brothers, and | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
their consistency also across all three disciplines. It is not they | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
are the fast runners, they are among the strongest swimmers and | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
bikers as well. I think we will see some interteam tactics taking place | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
here, so I think we will see some of the teams working together, | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
especially on the bike, to try and create what we call breakaways, so | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
I think we will see them using the corner, accelerating out of the | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
very many corners on this technical course, trying to break grey the | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Brownlees and get themselves a gap so going into the run they can | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
withstand the incredible speed of Alistair and Johnny. We have Stewie | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
Hayes, who is going to help them to try and achieve their aims. But if | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
you watch Saturday's woman's triathlon you will know what it is | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
nt. If not, here is what is involved for the athletes today. | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
Triathlon. A triathlon is a race divided into three different | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
disciplines. Swim. The first element is a 1500 metre open water | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
swim. And as triathletes look to establish their position, contact | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
is accepted, unless it is considered to be unfair or a | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
deliberate attempt to impede. Competitors will look to use slip | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
streaming to conserve energy. Swimming in the the trail of others | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
can significantly improve performance, in in the disciplines | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
following the swim. Cycle. The transition period between swimming | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
and cycling is key, in the hope of gaining an advantage before a 40 | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
kilometre bike ride. Specialist carbon-fibre bikes are used as they | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
are strong but very light this is particularly important, as any | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
fault in the equipment can finish the challenge. Drafting is allowed | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
at Olympic level where cyclist can cycle as a large group. Some riders | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
may form a break away at the front, in order to get a head start in the | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
next phase, run. The race is won and lost with the final discipline. | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
A ten kilometre run. The first three triathletes to cross the line | :08:45. | :08:55. | |
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And by the way, as we start looking at pictures coming from Hyde Park | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
there, the Brownlee brothers are on the cover of all of the Yorkshire | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
telephone director -- directorys this year in case the penny has | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
just dropped. They are about to get going into the river shortly. | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Sonali has bag add ringside seed there -- seat there this morning. | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
We have been watching the Brownlee brothers and Stuart being called | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
out to their pontoon positions, huge cheers from the crowd. They | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
are wearing number 30, 31 and 32 on their swimming caps. Vicky, who was | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
part of the women's team on Saturday for Team GB. You know the | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
course very very well. Having competed on it already. It is very | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
very technical isn't it, and you were involved in one of the many | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
crashes that day. Yes, the cours does have you a couple of technical | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
area, down through Buckingham Palace, to the main area, and the | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
crash I was involved in happened on one of the corners round Buckingham | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Palace, and it seems it is transpired since the race a lot of | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
people crashed on that same corner, and maybe ten plus girls came down, | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
soy would be very vair -- wary of that area. I presume you passed on | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
your tips to the Brownlees and Stewart of course. Yes all the team | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
staff were there, they will pass it on. Are there a rumour of ill slick | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
on that corner. So anything to rectify it will have been done. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
Stewart will be there to protect the Brownlees, to set the pace as | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
well. Graham, you were in Kitzbuhel when they worked together for the | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
first time properly on such a huge stage. How will it work out today? | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Stuart is there for if something goes wrong, crash or mechanical. | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
The way I think the race will go, ideal scenario will be a break away | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
with both Brownlees in it. Maybe the Russian, Bryukhankov, if he can | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
swim hard, he will be looking at Gomez, thinking he has to beat him. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
So Bryukhankov will think we want to go out hard and get out on the | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
bike, the ideal scenario is a break away the Brownlees in it. If that | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
doesn't happen, that is when Stuart's role comes in. There is | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
talk of all the other countries working together against Team GB, | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
something similar to what we saw in the road race with Cape Canaveral | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
and Alistair has spoken out about that, knowing it is a danger. He | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
said that has boosd them because than they are the people to beat. | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
For sure, the lest of the field will have to work against them if | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
they want to beat them. They will have to team up and take it to the | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Brownlees. It is theirs the lose. They are the favourites. The rest | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
of the world, teaming up against them, that would have had to be | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
organised and I am not sure anything has been done about that. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
But as the race progresses we will see. On the plus side Bryukhankov | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
is thinking if which get a break away on the bike Gomez isn't going | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
to outrun me, I can guarantee a medal by being with the Brownlees. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
Several athlete also know they are not the fastest runners but they | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
maybe good in the swim. So it is in their interest to be in that break | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
to, have a great swim. Hopefully be in that group that gets away and | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
they will have a higher finishing position than if they are in the | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
main pack. Britain has never won a triathlon medal. Team GB will be | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
hope that 2012 is their year. We will find nowt a couple of hours | :12:31. | :12:40. | |
time. It is time to hand you over time. It is time to hand you over | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
to the commentators. Here is the start list for the triathlon 2012. | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
Going down through country order, to Portuguese, one Slovakian, one | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
South African. Then we get to the business end of this start list. | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
Beginning with 30 Alistair Brownlee. 31 Jonathan Brownlee. 32 Stuart | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
Hayes. No number 13 in the Olympic triathlon, so there are 56 numbers | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
but only 55 competitors T Germans are strong. 46, 47, 48. And there | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
is Gomez at 51 with his compatriots. We will look out for the New | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
Zealand trio at the end. Number 3 for Great Britain, the favourite. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
The pre-Olympic triathlon favourite Alistair Brownlee. 31 is Johnny. | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
There is 51. Gomez. They are getting ready to start. Wet suits | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
used because the water temperature is cold. They areied to goment. | :13:46. | :13:55. | |
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They dive into the Serpentine to Pride Park. This hugely anticipated | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
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race. Into the Serpentine fought a under 20 minutes. Just looking at | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
the way that that swim has developed, everyone looking to get | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
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for it. We have an arrowhead forming on the left. But they are | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
well spread out across the Serpentine. Groups jostling for | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
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We will assume that his brother is alongside him. They have just | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
returned from four weeks of altitude training in the Swiss Alps. | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
That is a training camp that they have benefited from the usually. -- | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
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hugely. Richard Varga is a very strong | :16:31. | :16:41. | |
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swimmer. At the moment there is a considerable gap to catch. Varga at | :16:57. | :17:07. | |
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the head of the field, looking very comfortable. Gomez hot on his heels. | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
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Varga leads. They have got to be careful here, this is where arms go | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
flying out elbows can do damage. Some of them getting boxed in as | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
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they try to squeeze their way around that long yellow inflatable. | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
Varga just turned and had that double benefit of taking a swift | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
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look over. He does not want to allow Alistair Brownlee and Jonny | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
Brownlee to get away from him. Look at how closely knit the field | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
is. I imagine some of them are getting battered and bruised | :18:13. | :18:23. | |
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through that term. Varga forcing the pace at the front of the field. | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
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It is nice to beat in that situation. However you do not have | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
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any one ahead acute and you are Serpentine is a 28 acre lake. | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
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Now supplied by water pumped straight in from the River Thames. | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
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There are medics and lifeguards on already. After those first six or | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
seven, they're still around three deep. So they need to exercise some | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
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come out. Tens of thousands out enjoying this Olympic Triathlon | :20:40. | :20:50. | |
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which will take place primarily in Hyde Park. Jonny Brownlee just five | :20:54. | :21:03. | |
metres off the pace. One of the advantages that Alistair Brownlee | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
and Jonny Brownlee do have is that because they have trained together | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
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they can recognise their strokes. Just those subtle nuances. You can | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
bet that they know exactly where they are and they are able to use | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
it to other through the swim. Because they're so good at world | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
level there is the danger that they could be targeted just a little by | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
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some of the other athletes. Richard Varga leads stage one in | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
Richard Varga leads stage one in the Serpentine. | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
And some sad news to bring you because Phillips Idowu was | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
struggling to qualifying. This was his third attempt. And it was not | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
good enough. Phillips Idowu I'm afraid she did not get over that | :22:10. | :22:19. | |
mark. The first time he is qualified, but he has not qualified | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
for the final. Of course the fuss about his non-attendance about the | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
Great Britain training camp will be opened again and he will have some | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
serious questions to answer. Especially those been asked by the | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
performance director, Charles van, me. That is a terrible shame and we | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
me. That is a terrible shame and we all feel greatly for him today. | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
It is a long pack and everyone is close together. Alistair Brown Lee | :22:55. | :23:05. | |
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and John Leathem Brown the in 4th coming through. There will be happy | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
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with that. Some of the spectators were getting to the park at 5:30am | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
this morning. Great Britain have never yet won a medal in the | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
Olympic Triathlon. But the brothers just seemed to brush off the | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
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We have high hopes today. While Helen Jenkins this year finished in | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
5th place and a courageous performance from her. She had been | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
nursing a leg injury. To do what she did under that kind of pressure | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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is just astounding. She gave it absolutely everything. | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
Bryukhankov a very consistent performer. He was second in Madrid. | :24:54. | :25:03. | |
He is one to watch. They come around the second set of the | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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inflatables. Still Richard Varga leading the way. This seems not to | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
be a significant break away happening at the moment in the | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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swimming. Varga an incredibly strong swimmer. He has been | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
training with the Brownlee brothers. It is interesting to see Gomez in | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
their. And Bryukhankov. The brothers in an incredible position | :25:59. | :26:08. | |
at the moment. 12 minutes into the swim. Varga | :26:08. | :26:18. | |
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leads the way. The Brownlee brothers in fourth and fifth. | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
Stuart Hayes is very much the projector. He needs to have a good | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
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swim to be up there with the brothers. | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
There are huge decisions to be made into the transition area. | :26:51. | :26:59. | |
Bryukhankov loves it. He will be prepared to put himself on the line | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
if there was a possibility of a breakaway. | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
Could we have a six or seven-man breakaway? People talk about this | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
course and she being quite easy but I disagree. There are over 100 | :27:21. | :27:31. | |
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tight turns. Gomez going through. He has won | :27:41. | :27:51. | |
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over this distance in the past. Heading back towards the pontoon. | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
Then just back towards the ramp that bears them out of the lake. | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
They also have to get rid of the wet suits which is sometimes | :28:11. | :28:19. | |
described as the 4th element in the Triathlon, that transition. | :28:19. | :28:27. | |
Seven or eight are likely to get away first on the bikes. It will be | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
interesting to see how long the leaders can keep clear of that | :28:31. | :28:40. | |
second group. It looks as if the big gap is opening now between that | :28:40. | :28:48. | |
second and third group. That is interesting. If one group know that | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
they can get away then I am certain that they will be prepared to take | :28:52. | :29:02. | |
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that risk. Gomez would be desperate to be in front of the Brownlees. If | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
there is a weakness in his armoury, he can ride very fast but he does | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
not possess a sprint finish as strong as the brothers. And that | :29:22. | :29:32. | |
:29:32. | :29:40. | ||
clouds don't release any of their rain, and make for a dangerous 43 | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
kilometre ride round some of the main sites of west London, they | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
leave the park, remember, via Hyde Park coner, down Constitution Hill | :29:49. | :29:57. | |
to the Palace, to complete the 43 kilometre ride. Seven laps in total. | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
Fabulous tactics by the Brownlee boy, they have Gomez in second, | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
just in front of them. They are looking at him. They are not going | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
to let him get away, as much as the rest of the field will be | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
marshalling looking at Jonny and Alistair, they know who their main | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
opposition are, and Tay are going to be hon foring that and following | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
that. It is going to be hard. I think it is possible, it is | :30:20. | :30:26. | |
possible, maybe we are going to get a group staying away, we did see | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
that on the women's field. Within two laps they have been brought | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
back to the main field. It's a fast pace set by Varga, he will exit the | :30:35. | :30:41. | |
water in under 17 minutes. It is Varga of Slovakia who gets on to | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
his feet. Lifts his goggles. Undoes his wet suit. Followed by Gomez, he | :30:46. | :30:53. | |
is second out. You can check the guys, the names coming through. | :30:53. | :31:01. | |
Fabian of Italy is third. Then Jonny Brownlee. They have arrived | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
in transition. Look at Gomez, stepping out of his wet suit. | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
Multi-tasking as he puts his helmet on. Jonny arrives. Alistair is | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
right behind him. They have to get the kit into the box. Everything | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
has to be done according to the rules. The wet suit gets dumped in. | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
The helmet goes on t shoes are attached to the pedals and it is | :31:24. | :31:30. | |
Jonny who exits transition just ahead of his older brother, but | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
Gomez is already aboard, and peddling, he has reached the mount | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
up line, he son his way, they know the defending champion from Germany | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
is at his bike as well. They will expect a gruech seven or eight to | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
form at the front. Fabian of Italy is involved. Some of the, this | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
group of about seven or six will try and close the group. This is | :31:52. | :31:58. | |
the third group. Keeping an eyen some of the big names from the | :31:58. | :32:08. | |
:32:08. | :32:11. | ||
difference between the first group out and the third group to arrive. | :32:12. | :32:20. | |
That is a huge gap. Let us not take it away from the swimmers. Murray | :32:20. | :32:25. | |
is one minute 15 seconds behind. Murray is mainly the one person who | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
could outsprint the Brownlees on this. He has had a great position | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
at San Diego. Over a minute down. This will take an enormous amount | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
of work to get Murray from South Africa back on that pack. Richard | :32:36. | :32:44. | |
Murray from South Africa, one in -- won in Hamburg there, finished | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
behind Eustace in Sydney and third in San Diego. He has a lot of work | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
to do. This group will form a large pack of round 20 to work their way | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
up and claw back some of the lead. We are with the leaders now. There | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
is a bit of chat going on. We have a man down. Somebody has hit the | :33:03. | :33:09. | |
deck early. That is Simon Whitfield of Canada. He has taken somebody | :33:09. | :33:19. | |
:33:19. | :33:19. | ||
with him as well. It is Chacon,, goodness me. Oh my word! I hope hay | :33:19. | :33:25. | |
are both OK. That was a massive shunt for Chacon and Whitfield who | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
was the first ever Olympic triathlon champion in Sydney in | :33:27. | :33:36. | |
2000. Simon Whitfield fourth time in the Olympic Games, Fife athletes | :33:36. | :33:41. | |
away, one in that horrible situation having to chase very hard. | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
Now Simon Whitfield was in the second pack, round 30 seconds down, | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
would have worked so hard to get back on. They went over that almost | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
a speed bump, just that to cover some testify irregularities in | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
surface, we weren't sure if we were going have a work group, you can | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
bet your life we have now. Alistair and Jonny Brownlee. We thought | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
Stuart Hayes would be there to help out but it seems at the moment he | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
wasn't able to stay on that big swim pace. We didn't see him in the | :34:10. | :34:13. | |
lead pack. Let us just watch this, what is happening here with this | :34:13. | :34:19. | |
group of five. They are coming to the front. Down on the bars, we see | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
20, 25 pedal revolution, then they are moving over to the right hand | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
side, the next cyclist triathlete will come through so they are | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
spreading the workload, rather than one leading everything, vvings | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
having to take the pressure, they are spreading it. If they can | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
maintain this it is possible they could stay away from the chasing | :34:39. | :34:46. | |
pack. 30 seconds down, coming out of the water. It could be close. | :34:46. | :34:54. | |
Kris Gemmell is there. It's a big pack. The German is there. Bokty is | :34:54. | :35:02. | |
there. I am getting so excited about this. -- Doherty. It is a | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
great group at the front. Five athletes working together. I love | :35:06. | :35:12. | |
it when we see it. Past the monument to the regiment of the | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
Royal Artillery. They duck under the arch. They are crossing the | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
Duke of Wellington place, the statue hidden by the tree. It is | :35:19. | :35:24. | |
all about the Duke here. They hit Constitution Hill, through the | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
memorial gates. Down Constitution Hill. It's a very faint slope down | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
to Palace, Buckingham Palace garden behind that brick wall and the | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
razor wire on the right. And it is Jonny, Jonny Brownlee, 31, who is | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
setting the pace, down Constitution Hill, heading for Buckingham Palace | :35:45. | :35:52. | |
for the first time on this first of seven laps. Varga is second. There | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
is the Italian, Fabian, there is Alistair, who is fourth and in | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
fifth at the moment, is Gomez of Spain. What a group of five to lead | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
the Olympic triathlon, they come down in front of the Palace, round | :36:06. | :36:10. | |
the Victoria memorial, there is a loop they do here which takes them | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
briefly on to Birdcage Walk, before they head up on the other side of | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
that line of red traffic cones to climb Constitution Hill towards the | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
top, and the second group, well the pace is noticibly slower within | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
this second group They are not getting it together. Looking back, | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
nobody is prepared the close that gap. You can almost hear their mind | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
working, why should I work to drag them back if it is not going to | :36:35. | :36:45. | |
make it viable for me because I will be so tired? Fabian and other | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
early lead swimmer... Varga:they will be delighted to be out there. | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
We have the three race favourites here, Alistair and Jonny and Gomez | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
is there as well. So Varga is going to be prepared to work so hard, | :36:57. | :37:02. | |
because this makes it viable for him. If he were coming out behind | :37:02. | :37:09. | |
that we might be having a few issues there. Polyanskiy, dropping | :37:09. | :37:12. | |
off the back of that pack already, we thought he might be one of the | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
viable players in this big game. Something has happened with | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
Polyanskiy. I this he is looking for a mechanical assistance at the | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
side of the course. He stopped in for a pit-stop here, he is taking | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
off his reefer wheel and looking for a replacement. Meanwhile the | :37:27. | :37:32. | |
guys are cycling back up the hill with Green Park on the right. They | :37:32. | :37:38. | |
will hang a right, up Park Lane for a few yards, before they go left | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
and back-in to Hyde Park, to head back to transition, to complete lap | :37:43. | :37:52. | |
one of seven. Seven laps of 6.13 kilometres each, to clock up the | :37:52. | :37:59. | |
total of 43. And Polyanskiy has fixed his bike, and he is now way, | :37:59. | :38:05. | |
way off the pace. It's a tough ask for the Russian. 27 tries to bridge | :38:05. | :38:12. | |
the gap is Vasiliev. He is trying to close the gap. They are up | :38:12. | :38:17. | |
through the gates again and round the Duke of Wellington place, up | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
into Park Lane before heading back- in to Hyde Park. A cracking start | :38:21. | :38:25. | |
to the Olympic triathlon. I have got an unofficial split there on | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
the bike, watching them come through. I make it 20 seconds. | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
Perhaps we are denigrating that chase back a little too much, | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
because that was the time gap coming out of the swim. We had the | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
first group within eight, ten seconds and then that gap coming | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
through, so perhaps we are pre- empting this. Maybe we are calling | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
it too early. You look at the five at the front they appear to be | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
working so hard, the chase pack coming through, maybe because it is | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
bigger, I think that might be Noble there at the head of the second | :38:58. | :39:04. | |
chase pack, that is interesting, a first time Olympic reputation for | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
Gavin. First time for a Irish triathlete to get into the Olympic | :39:07. | :39:15. | |
game, this seems a huge pace at the front. If they are not moving away, | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
then it is a forcable -- forceful effort in the chase pack. Look at | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
the crowds. Astonishing numbers have turned out to watch the | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
Olympic triathlon which has caught the public imagination with the | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
Brownlee brothers on all the front pages this morn, a lot of them. | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
They are back passing the Serpentine and the pace, you are | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
right, I don't think I have ever seen such a furious pace at the | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
front of the field, as Alistair, just seizes to his left. Et let's | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
them take it up as they hit the blue carpet to complete lap one of | :39:52. | :39:58. | |
seven, so six kilometres down, a total time of 26 minutes, and three | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
seconds, one lap down, six to go on the bike. What a start! There we | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
are going to get a proper time split. My unofficial one was round | :40:08. | :40:13. | |
20 seconds. As we see the leaders going through the transition areas, | :40:13. | :40:18. | |
at the end of that one, it is just round there, 21 seconds, so that is | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
going to be a lot of hard work. It will be a huge decision on the next | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
couple of laps to stay out there. I wonder if Stuart heys in the chase | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
pack is playing any part. If he is getting to the front to slow it | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
down a little. We haven't had a sighting. There he is, at the back. | :40:35. | :40:41. | |
32. There he is, Stuart the Hayes coming through now, number 32. | :40:41. | :40:46. | |
Stuart Hayes is trying to get involved here. Stuart's yob would | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
be to get to front of the chase pack and to try and slow it down. | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
Of course as soon as he does that, you can imagine the response, they | :40:54. | :40:59. | |
are not going to allow him to do it. It's a tough call for him. That is | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
where we had the crash earlier, that speed bump starting the lap is | :41:03. | :41:08. | |
where Whitfield and number one, Chacon hit the Tarmac heavily. | :41:08. | :41:14. | |
Haven't heard any more about them, as we watch the chase, this is | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
group three now, coming through transition to complete lap number | :41:18. | :41:24. | |
one.. It is. We still have some of the big names down there, Richard | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
Murray one minute 14 down. That is a tough call. They just seem to be | :41:29. | :41:36. | |
working so hard. Now... Here are the leaders, Gomez, Varga, Jonny | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
Brownlee. Alistair Brownlee. This group of five. Swam together, | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
exited the Serpentine together. Hit transition together and are leading | :41:44. | :41:50. | |
the race together. Look at the pace they areing as they head along | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
south carriage drive. This runs parallels with Knightsbridge they | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
will hit Hyde Park Corner. Park Lane, Constitution Hill, Grosvenor | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
place and Piccadilly, five of London's main thoroughfares to | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
begin the descent again, down to the Palace, there is work going on | :42:08. | :42:15. | |
n the chase group. 21 is the Swiss rider. He is calling the shots at | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
the front of the chase group. I can see them splitting. We have those | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
who are prepared to work turning round, Stuart Hayes, rightly, I am | :42:23. | :42:29. | |
not going to be doing any work, I am going to sit back and see if | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
anything develops on the latter half where he can add to the | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
Brownlee Brownlees' chances of winning. I am sure they will get | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
feedback from their coaches and manager, they know the time gap has | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
stayed the same and they have got now, they have almost made their | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
commitment, they have got to keep going through. If they get back-in | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
to the chase pack, the amount of work, the hard work they have done | :42:53. | :42:58. | |
at the front is going to take its toll on their legs as they go into | :42:58. | :43:03. | |
the run. Even at this early stage. Passing Astbury house on the right | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
which means that Hyde Park Corner is looming. The grand entrance | :43:07. | :43:12. | |
there, they come out of the Queen Mother gates which gives them a | :43:13. | :43:16. | |
wider exit. Not necessary with only five of them at the front. They | :43:16. | :43:21. | |
hang a right down Park Lane before they dive under the Wellington arch | :43:21. | :43:26. | |
again. They are now passing in front of the hotel on the right | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
which used to be St George's Hospital there is nice bridge on | :43:29. | :43:35. | |
the right. And they go through this section which takes them down | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
Constitution Hill, for the second time. Under the Wellington arch, | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
the speed has not eased up. These five are really pushing hard at the | :43:43. | :43:53. | |
:43:53. | :44:03. | ||
on. Gomez would like that, Alistair Brownlee and Jonny Brownlee would | :44:03. | :44:11. | |
like that. Unofficially we had around the same time gap. The chase | :44:11. | :44:21. | |
:44:21. | :44:24. | ||
group coming down through part of the memorial gates. Gomez takes his | :44:24. | :44:32. | |
turn to force the pace of the front of the field. | :44:32. | :44:39. | |
Coming down towards the palace for the second time. I am told that the | :44:39. | :44:47. | |
time gap is down to 18 seconds. So the chase group not having an easy | :44:47. | :44:56. | |
ride, having to work desperately hard. | :44:56. | :45:01. | |
It is going to be difficult to have any kind of fresh legs going into | :45:01. | :45:10. | |
the final round. Let us see what Chrissie Wellington it looks to | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
make of the dynamics developing. Will the brothers have found | :45:16. | :45:24. | |
themselves in an incredible position. They are working really | :45:24. | :45:32. | |
hard. They are sharing the load. Using the draft behind to each | :45:32. | :45:39. | |
other's wheels to conserve a little bit of energy. Each one of them | :45:39. | :45:45. | |
taking a lead at the front. And the same strategy is being used by the | :45:45. | :45:55. | |
:45:55. | :46:02. | ||
chase pack to try to close the gap. The New Zealanders are starting to | :46:02. | :46:09. | |
pull out at the head of that pack. You can see the chase group now | :46:09. | :46:19. | |
:46:19. | :46:30. | ||
closing the gap. The gap is now well under 20. | :46:30. | :46:37. | |
Jan Frodeno, the defending champion. And there is Stuart Hayes, third | :46:38. | :46:47. | |
:46:48. | :47:02. | ||
has been a concerted struggle. Just think what is going through | :47:02. | :47:08. | |
their heads now, the five at the front. They seemed just to be | :47:08. | :47:16. | |
working so much harder with that smaller group. | :47:16. | :47:21. | |
You can bet that Gomez and Alistair Brownlee and Jonny Brownlee are | :47:21. | :47:26. | |
saying, up we have made that commitment. If we ease up now and | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
go back into the second group then at our next will be more tired for | :47:29. | :47:39. | |
:47:39. | :47:44. | ||
the run. -- our legs. The crowd had to get up early to get such a great | :47:44. | :47:54. | |
:47:54. | :48:01. | ||
advantage. In Hyde Park. -- vantage point. Varga sneaks in behind. | :48:01. | :48:11. | |
:48:11. | :48:14. | ||
Fabian taking his turn. And it is Alastair believes them through. | :48:14. | :48:19. | |
it looks as if the gap has closed. Gavin Noble from Ireland at the | :48:19. | :48:29. | |
:48:29. | :48:34. | ||
head of the chase pack. The gap came down to 18. Nine seconds is | :48:34. | :48:42. | |
now the gap. So will will shortly have a group of around 20 forming | :48:42. | :48:52. | |
:48:52. | :48:55. | ||
at the front of the field. Fabian looks over his shoulder. Stuart | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
Hayes is with that group. A Londoner through and through. | :48:59. | :49:08. | |
:49:09. | :49:13. | ||
Thrilled to get the chance to race here. Jonny just getting a check on | :49:13. | :49:23. | |
:49:23. | :49:47. | ||
I did not see the defending Olympic champion, Jan Frodeno from Germany. | :49:47. | :49:54. | |
We saw Petzold coming through. It is similar to the way that the | :49:54. | :49:59. | |
women's race developed with that big early lead and then a lot of | :49:59. | :50:05. | |
jockeying for position. The leaders had just begun lap three. Everyone | :50:05. | :50:12. | |
working hard to try to get involved. Lots of encouragement, lots of chat | :50:12. | :50:22. | |
:50:22. | :50:36. | ||
between the riders. The brilliant Brownlee brothers out | :50:36. | :50:46. | |
:50:46. | :50:47. | ||
in front. The gap is certainly coming down. Lots of conversation | :50:47. | :50:52. | |
going on in that front group. Notts of encouragement to the others. | :50:52. | :50:58. | |
They have to try to keep going. They will be working hard to close | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
the gap but they have to establish the position that they set out nice | :51:02. | :51:12. | |
:51:12. | :51:15. | ||
and early. They are working so well together as a team, that unit of | :51:15. | :51:21. | |
five. Everyone trying to work hard. They | :51:22. | :51:28. | |
want to stay in front, I do not know if they can. | :51:28. | :51:38. | |
:51:38. | :51:43. | ||
There will exit the park again shortly. | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
Going right time Park Lane. Out onto the tarmac of the roads of | :51:48. | :51:57. | |
west London. We have been speaking about that | :51:57. | :52:05. | |
that closing down but they still have not closed it completely. | :52:05. | :52:10. | |
You would think that the chasing pack, as soon as the got that close, | :52:10. | :52:18. | |
they would be able to get onto it. Perhaps it is coming. Five seconds | :52:18. | :52:24. | |
between No. 5 and number six. The groups will come together very | :52:25. | :52:34. | |
:52:35. | :52:36. | ||
shortly. The guys at the front know that the group is going to grow. | :52:36. | :52:46. | |
:52:46. | :52:53. | ||
Perhaps it is time just to conserve their legs. David Hauss taking a | :52:53. | :53:03. | |
:53:03. | :53:34. | ||
sites. This three Olympic ticket. The chasing group still way off the | :53:34. | :53:44. | |
:53:44. | :53:49. | ||
pace. And the front group has grown. It was five, it is now 22. Stuart | :53:49. | :53:56. | |
Hayes, this is what he has been brought in to do. He was a reserve | :53:56. | :54:04. | |
in Athens and had a double puncture in the Olympic trials in 2008 and | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
now he has the chance finally to race in the Olympic Triathlon that | :54:08. | :54:15. | |
matters most to him. And he is leading the competition. | :54:15. | :54:25. | |
:54:25. | :54:26. | ||
Alistair Brownlee look to forward and said, you go for it, Stewart. | :54:26. | :54:35. | |
Vicky Holland is watching this race for us and let us catch up with her. | :54:35. | :54:39. | |
It was an interesting break away with those five guys getting away. | :54:39. | :54:47. | |
It was a pretty ideal situation for full stock the chasing pack, five | :54:47. | :54:57. | |
or six of them in the front really doing most of the work. It has now | :54:57. | :55:02. | |
come together. Stuart Heys straight to the front of that pack and he | :55:02. | :55:12. | |
:55:12. | :55:15. | ||
will trying -- be trying to make it as hard as possible for the others. | :55:15. | :55:22. | |
Sapping their legs as much as possible. | :55:22. | :55:28. | |
This is the chase group coming through. I beg your pardon, this is | :55:28. | :55:36. | |
the leading group. And we think there are 22 strung out along the | :55:36. | :55:46. | |
:55:46. | :56:02. | ||
road. Vasiliev from Russia. He is always a threat. Jan Frodeno is now | :56:02. | :56:12. | |
in that pack, the defending Olympic champion. The other two Russians | :56:12. | :56:21. | |
have been having a fairly easy ride. With the three French athletes. | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
They have been able to conserve their energy perhaps more than the | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
athletes doing the work at the front. That is an interesting | :56:29. | :56:39. | |
:56:39. | :56:41. | ||
tactic, a high risk strategy. But it has worked for them. | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
We are hearing that it is possible that Jonathan Bramley might have to | :56:47. | :56:55. | |
incur and 15 second penalty for mounting his bike to early when he | :56:55. | :56:58. | |
exited into transition after the swim. We will try to get | :56:58. | :57:08. | |
:57:08. | :57:19. | ||
confirmation on that. A fabulous performance from Gavin | :57:19. | :57:29. | |
:57:29. | :57:29. | ||
Noble from Ireland. Everything to play for us still. The three French | :57:29. | :57:33. | |
athletes have managed to re- establish contact in the lead group | :57:33. | :57:38. | |
and they have not worked too hard at all. Across the Serpentine | :57:39. | :57:48. | |
:57:49. | :57:52. | ||
Bridge. The pace is starting to move up again. The brothers at the | :57:52. | :58:00. | |
front of the field. Murray of South Africa has been as | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
strong contender throughout the season and is leading that chasing | :58:04. | :58:14. | |
:58:14. | :58:17. | ||
group. One minute and 17 seconds off the pace of the leaders. That | :58:17. | :58:24. | |
is tough for Richard Murray. He knows that swimming is his weakness. | :58:24. | :58:28. | |
If he can be in contention and he has great chances of winning the | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
race. But to be detached from the leading pack because of the speed | :58:33. | :58:36. | |
of that first discipline today, that makes it extra difficult for | :58:36. | :58:46. | |
:58:46. | :59:01. | ||
him. The duathlon is basically the triathlon without the swim. | :59:01. | :59:05. | |
Unbelievable scenes. People standing on chairs, and on | :59:06. | :59:10. | |
shoulders, trying to get a shot. For many people it will be their | :59:10. | :59:16. | |
only chance to see an Olympics bought up close and personal. Such | :59:17. | :59:20. | |
was the demand for the tickets when they first went on sale. And now | :59:20. | :59:26. | |
they get a chance with this been a free event, to witness history in | :59:26. | :59:32. | |
the making, potentially. A little conversation going on between | :59:32. | :59:37. | |
Stuart Hayes and Gavin Noble. I wonder if they have developed some | :59:37. | :59:47. | |
alternative strategy. Just some easing off on the pace. Almost a | :59:47. | :59:57. | |
:59:57. | :00:08. | ||
regrouping. Getting there energy park. For the 4th time. Out through | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
the gates on this right hand town to take them down towards Hyde Park | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
Corner, before heading towards Buckingham Palace. The 4th lap of | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
seven is well under way. All three of the British triathletes are | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
involved, plus Gavin Noble from the Republic of Ireland, are out there | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
and in contention at this stage. The triathlon, those three sports, | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
you never can tell. We look at it, we try to think ahead to what is | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
going to happen. We saw the break in the swim, the Leeds pack getting | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
away and thinking, with such class, they are going to be able to stay | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
away -- the lead pack. They get caught within two or three laps and | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
it puts a whole different complexion on what is happening. We | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
said about the French and Russians staying at the back, they are still | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
doing that, confidence they are going to be able to maintain that, | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
knowing they will get into the 10 kilometre run with fresh legs. | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
Docherty has played this extremely well. He is going to be gathering | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
his energy, thinking, is there a chance for me to get a third | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
Olympic medal? Everything to play for. Here they come, at the front | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
of the palace once again. Buckingham Palace, the most popular | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
place to visit in London. 24 metres high, 77,000 square metres of floor | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
:01:47. | :01:54. | ||
back of this group, taking it easy, letting the guys in the front do | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
the work. I don't think they have the running power to challenge | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Gomez and the Brownlees. It is interesting, they are having to | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
take it easy because they need all of their stamina for the run. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
many times, we have seen powerful, strong men, looking to get to the | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
front of the bike. He is a heavy man on the run and he pushes it to | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
the extreme. A different strategy. Bryukhankov, taking the chance to | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
be sitting at the back. Here we go, Stuart Hayes takes his turn at the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
front, we are about halfway through the bike leg of the Olympic | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
triathlon. We have just been trying to find out more about Jonny and | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
his 15 second penalty. I have been up to the control box. Apparently, | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
definitely a 15 second penalty for mounting the bike too early. We | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
watched them come through. We did not see that. We would have noticed. | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
They do have video evidence. If we could go back and have a look. | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
Absolutely, it has to be one foot on the floor after you cross the | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
line before you mount the bike. He could have taken off the fraction | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
of a second too early. We didn't pick up on it at the time, it will | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
be interesting to see it back. he appealed this? Unfortunately you | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
not, if the penalty is given during the race. When does he take it? | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
will have the option to take it at any point during the run. His first | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
opportunity will be at the end of lap one. He could take it any lap | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
until the very end. I would think he would take it at the end of the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
second of third lap. It will be a 15 second penalty, a stop and go | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
where he has to wait. This is something they would have planned | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
for, if they get a penalty, when they would try to take them? | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
Absolutely. As an athlete you never want to have one you will consider | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
when you might take it, in a situation where I believed I would | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
be awarded a penalty earlier this year, had already planned which lap | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
I would take it, so I was aware of that. Whether Jonny is currently | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
aware, I don't know. His opposition will know he has to take a penalty. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
If he is in a group, they will know he has to drop out. They won't know | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
that at this point. The numbers will go up on the board as they | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
start the run. On the first lap, you will see the penalty board. As | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Jonny is such a marked man, his number will be known by virtually | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
all of the field. They will know he has a penalty to take. That's the | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
news from transition. Back to our commentators. Bad news bought | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Jonathan Brownlee. We saw him get the news a little earlier -- bad | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
news for Jonathan Brown live. What is your take on this? I think that | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
was fabulous insight from Vicky Holland. She is a great athlete and | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
I think she's going to get even better. To really show us how the | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
athletes are thinking... I am sure a lot of people will have bought, | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
:05:26. | :05:26. | ||
let's get that penalty taken as quickly as we can. The thinking is | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
that let's may be used the first five kilometres, to try to break | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
away. I am sure we will see a hard run coming from Jonny and of course | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Alastair, to try to get some time between himself and the rest of the | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
field. So if they do that, they wore take some of the 15 seconds. | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
What a situation to put yourself in in an Olympic final. Having said | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
that, the Brownlees have won so comfortably at the top level so far | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
this season, if you think back to how far Jonny was ahead of Hancock | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
when he won in Madrid, he could have stopped for 15 seconds and | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
still won the competition. He is not, despite having a 15 second | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
penalty to take, he is not out of the medals. He is not. We have this | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
tremendous depth of field. Alistair and Jonny bring a different | :06:28. | :06:38. | |
:06:38. | :06:44. | ||
Although dom's running is extremely strong, we have to take the | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
dimensions of are the tactic will develop -- although Jonny's running | :06:49. | :06:59. | |
is extremely strong. It is a huge decision that Jonny has got to make. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
I would go back to the insight from Vicky Holland, the inside was | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
tremendous. I think racing hard in the first five kilometres, then the | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
break. Vasiliev and Gemmell, 27 and 55. Forming a little splinter group. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Trying to break away from the leaders. They will be reeled in | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
pretty sharpish. Stuart Heys forces the pace at the front of that group. | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
We are with the leaders as they make their way towards the exit of | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
Hyde Park. They are well on their way, now on lap five of seven on | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
the bike. Interesting, as soon as we saw the break go off, Stuart was | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
there to cover. We had an indication of how fast he was | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
because the gap almost went immediately to a single bike. It is | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
so hard to break away. If you get away 20 or 30 metres, it is not | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
significant. It has to be a sustained effort of five, six, | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
seven minutes to try to establish the gap and get a significant time | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
:08:17. | :08:30. | ||
difference. That didn't happen. breakaway, paid the price, ran out | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
of steam. He has grown since then and he won't make the same mistake | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
twice. The Olympic history tends to tell us that it is in your second | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
Olympic Games that you win your first gold medal. This is still | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
such a new sport but if we take that on board, this is Alistair's | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
second Olympic Games. He is a competitive. He has learned, he | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
paid the price in Beijing. Now an experienced athlete, twice world | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
champion, at senior level and the Olympic Games on home territory, he | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
has everything to go for. Under the Wellington Arch for the 4th time, | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
down constitution Hill towards the palace, through the memorial gates | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
:09:28. | :09:31. | ||
again. The memorial gates in operated by the Queen, | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
commemorating the sacrifice of 5 million men from the Indian sub- | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
continent, Africa and the Caribbean, during her Golden Jubilee in 2002. | :09:41. | :09:49. | |
We have just celebrated her Diamond Jubilee. Vasiliev, going off again. | :09:49. | :09:57. | |
We talked earlier about him doing the work at different. Because team | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
tactics have become more and more a part of triathlon at this level, | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
you have to think, is there a predetermined plan to get the | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
:10:17. | :10:21. | ||
Scilly have to go at the front. little shimmy around as they head | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
back up constitution Hill. Up towards the park. The chasers are a | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
minute and 24 seconds behind, as they come through the arch. They | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
will eyeball each other. The chase group will eyeball the leaders, | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
with the leaders heading up the hill and the chasers going down | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
constitution Hill. The chasers will get a real idea of the work I have | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
to do, to try to get involved in this lead group, which numbers | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
about 22 at this stage. Perhaps it looks as if we are getting a bit of | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
:11:07. | :11:12. | ||
speed back at the front. The silly beginning to plan the end of the | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
bike, the transition going into the run. In Jonny Brownlee's said, he | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
will be dealing with the extra factor of the 15 second penalty, | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
how he works with that. It is getting there. All of the time, the | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
triathletes have to think ahead, what is happening in this | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
discipline, how do we plan, how do we go forward so we go into the | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
next disciplined enough recovered so that we can put our best in. | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
Coming up to 58 minutes since the triathlon began in the water of the | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
Serpentine. They are approaching the final third of the 5th lap of | :11:50. | :11:58. | |
the bike, to round up of the 43 kilometres. Hayes at the front, | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
Jonny Brownlee in second, still with the 15 second penalty to take. | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
Alistair is playing a sensible game. He is sitting in 7th or eighth at | :12:09. | :12:19. | |
:12:19. | :12:20. | ||
this stage. Here are the chasers. have to say, co Alastair came back | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
after his injuries, he raced at Blenheim, he was outstanding. He | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
went to another event and along with Jonny Brownlee, they had the | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
breakaway on the bike, they were quick back in. Even of the | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
desperately hard bike ride, he was still able to run away from the | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
field with a huge distance. He will have the confidence, despite what | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
has happened. Riding with the Colombian, with a camera mounted on | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
his front wheel. An interesting insight into the backstage. Now we | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
get a look behind, this is the camera looking back behind the bike | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
:13:17. | :13:17. | ||
of the Brazilian. Brazil took their first gold medal in gymnastics | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
yesterday. Hayes at the front, for Great Britain. What a moment for | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
him in the middle race, in a crowd of this size. Stuart Hayes is doing | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
:13:40. | :13:55. | ||
what he was brought in to do, to Hayes is delighted, he was the | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
alternative reserve, and he found it very frustrating to be at the | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
championships and be a little outside. So for him to get another | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
chance to race at his home Olympics is great. Five laps of seven are | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
:14:22. | :14:23. | ||
complete. Stuart Hayes leads the way. Alistair is tucked in in 7th | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
or 8th position at this stage. Now they grow across the surplus dime - | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
- they go across the Serpentine. You can just see the Albert | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
Memorial in Kensington Gardens, as opposed to the Victoria Memorial | :14:45. | :14:55. | |
:14:55. | :15:04. | ||
which sits in front of Buckingham Richard Murray leading through. | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
What sort of time gap do we have? Butterfield is in that group, too. | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
Will they be able to run one minute and 10 seconds faster than the | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
front pack? I think not. The gap has come down 10 seconds. They have | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
taken some time out of the lead, but the leading group is still | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
going well, as Jonny Brownlee drinks some water and pour some | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
down his neck. Just trying to keep himself cool. He is aware that this | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
triathlon has taken on a different element now. He has to take a 15 | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
second penalty. This is Kris Gemmell from New Zealand. Alistair | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
:16:07. | :16:14. | ||
is just tucked in behind no-ball working hard. He was brought in to | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
do a job here for the British team, and it is a job he has done | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
brilliantly so far. Interesting after Stewart was selected, talking | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
to his wife, she said he wanted to go up with Alistair and Jonny, and | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
his total focus moved away from triathlon and on to swimming and | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
cycling. He is coming here with a specific aim, to make the race | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
easier, better and more controlled fat Alistair and Jonny. He has done | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
:16:57. | :16:58. | ||
his work magnificently. They came down from Yorkshire on Saturday. | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
Jonathan was getting set for the biggest race of his life. Here they | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
:17:14. | :17:16. | ||
go into the lap five. Here is Hyde Park corner. The the Spanish Javier | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
Gomez is taking his turn at the front of the field. They have | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
completed lap five and are into a lapse six now. An interesting | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
development, people looking to try to get away. It is a high risk | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
strategy, because if you work for it and you get dragged back in, | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
then it's your legs are tired and you are not going to have a huge | :17:41. | :17:50. | |
time difference and going into the 10 km run. If it does work, | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
possibly. We saw on the women's race that the gap between the lead | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
group and the chase group dropped dramatically on the last lap and a | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
half. This doesn't seem to be happening here. Yet again, Vasiliev | :18:05. | :18:14. | |
has gone to the front. This seems like a strategy. His two can | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
patriots again to sit at the back and wait. Yes, he was six at the | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
world championship event in Sydney. He finished 4th in Madrid. So he is | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
:18:38. | :18:43. | ||
inconsistent but at times talented Some have different ideas about how | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
to approach this 6th lap than others. There is a bit of pressure, | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
and on March the front of the field, well strung-out as they come down | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
constitution Hill. Richard Murray is still holding second place there. | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
We know how strong a runner he is. He ran for 18 minutes for the five | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
:19:18. | :19:26. | ||
kilometres, and that would give him a good time in contention. | :19:26. | :19:34. | |
leaders are on their way up the hill. Stuart Hayes has let Jonathan | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
Brownlee take a turn at the front. This is typical of Jonny Brownlee, | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
barking instructions not only to his team-mates but to some of the | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
others who may be doing less work at the front. So Stuart Hayes comes | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
through to take it up at the front. No, actually, it is Alistair | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
Brownlee, his brother. Alistair Brownlee is forcing the pace at the | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
front of the triathlon at the climb up towards Hyde Park corner. He has | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
opened up a gap. That is an interesting move. What has he | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
decided to do? He is going at this late stage in the race, only a lap | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
to go now. Am I prepared to take this race to everybody else? If | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
they are going to try to catch me, to chase me, their legs will be | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
tired, and I have the confidence that I will have the strength in my | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
legs took out run the rest of this field. That is so brave and so | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
interesting. He is coming back into the park, and the crowd are | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
beginning to realise that they have a leader out on his own. Will he | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
get reeled back in by the pack? Alistair Brownlee from Great | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
Britain leads the Olympic triathlon. A little glance over his shoulder | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
suggests it won't be long before he is back in the pack as they try to | :21:13. | :21:23. | |
:21:23. | :21:25. | ||
closing-down. So, let's head back to the studio and talk to Chris to | :21:25. | :21:34. | |
find out what she thinks. Alistair clearly used the corner to try to | :21:34. | :21:43. | |
break the pack. I think he wanted to sack the legs of his competitors. | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
He is not afraid to use these short, sharp bursts of speed to force the | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
others to try and catch him, and he knows he can still be fresh for the | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
run, whereas they may have fatigued a little more quickly. Stuart Hayes | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
is now coming to the front again, pushing the pace, as he has been | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
brought in to do. Coming to the end of lap six of seven. Alistair's | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
mini-break has been cancelled out and he is back with the pack. | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
Stuart Hayes will get his name on top of the pile again as they come | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
:22:33. | :22:45. | ||
through transition. Toyama, Silva, Frodeno. Vigar, Bryukhankov. They | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
are just a few seconds off the pace, lots of talented runners and strong | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
legs available. They are on their way to complete the final lap of | :23:01. | :23:10. | |
the bike course. I think we need to look very carefully at two athletes. | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
Gomez has been in that league pack, content to sit back in 4th or 5th | :23:15. | :23:24. | |
place, and he hasn't reacted to any of the breakaways. And very | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
similarly, Jan Frodeno has followed very similar tactics, almost | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
shadowing Gomez, sitting back in 8th, 10th, thinking ahead. If the | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Brownlees are thinking what they are thinking, let them do that, and | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
if we can get an advantage, that might make a difference. No real | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
change between the end of the last lap and this lap for the distance | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
between the leaders and the chase group, it remains at about 1:11 or | :24:03. | :24:12. | |
1:12. Javier Gomez, number 51, a winner on this course a couple of | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
:24:22. | :24:22. | ||
years ago when Alistair ran out of steam. I think there is almost a | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
bit of a sense of frustration. These athletes are seeing that, | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
despite their efforts, this fairly big pack has got back together. | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
There will be all sorts of different mind games going on there | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
now. Despite the effort, the athletes who have played it very | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
cagily, they have got back into the lead pack without working too hard, | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
knowing that a little bit of extra confidence and fresher legs, they | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
will have the ability to work hard against Alistair Brownlee, Jonny | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
Brownlee, Jan Frodeno. It will give the extra dimension, another throw | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
of the dice. You have to wonder if the other members of this lead pack | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
are aware of that. There is a flash of green and gold. The Australians | :25:16. | :25:25. | |
:25:26. | :25:26. | ||
took a bronze in the women's triathlon on Saturday. Courtney | :25:26. | :25:35. | |
Atkinson. Now currently forcing the pace is Richard raga. Their exit | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
the park for the last time. The seventh and final lap. There will | :25:42. | :25:52. | |
:25:52. | :26:01. | ||
be one more whizz around the If we are calling his tactics right, | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
we would expect him to start moving up in the next five or six minutes | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
to try to get himself towards the front of the pack, because if he | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
does have strong running legs, he wants to be there. If he comes in | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
at the end of the pack, he will be a few seconds removed, and it will | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
be a lot more crowded in there. So if he believes he can run with the | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
the Brownlees, we will see him move up in the last couple of miles, the | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
last few kilometres, as we approach the final transition. Stuart Hayes | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
:26:44. | :26:47. | ||
at the front of the field, forcing finish in Beijing four years ago, | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
just stretching his back out. He has been pretty anonymous this | :26:53. | :27:03. | |
season. But he hadn't done that well before he won in Beijing | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
summer, so don't discount him. These preparations, the extra | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
dimensions in triathlon, getting so well prepared. We have a break away, | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
somebody charging up at the front of the chase group. Birdcage Walk, | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
this little triangle opposite the Palace. This is where so many | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
people fell in the women's race on Saturday. But apart from the | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
beginning of the bike race, early in lap one, everybody has managed | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
to stay on their wheels so far. The leaders will now I bawled the | :27:45. | :27:54. | |
chasers once again. You can just see them on the left-hand side of | :27:54. | :28:04. | |
:28:04. | :28:13. | ||
up on the bike of Colucci of Brazil. They are coming down towards the | :28:13. | :28:23. | |
palace. The leaders are now back on the uphill leg of Constitution Hill. | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
Now everybody is starting to position themselves to give | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
themselves the best position, the best chance, heading back into Hyde | :28:30. | :28:38. | |
Park. Now, is that Bryukhankov coming in on the right hand side? | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
Yes, it is, number two will stop we thought this might happen. He had | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
been sitting back and resting his legs, and now he is just beginning | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
to move up very gradually. Hopefully no one will notice me, he | :28:53. | :29:00. | |
thinks, and I will get out there and give it 100%. We have seen him | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
try to challenge Alistair and Jonny Brownlee before, and they have been | :29:03. | :29:11. | |
too strong for him. Perhaps he hopes that his legs will be that | :29:11. | :29:19. | |
little bit fresher for the run. hour and 15 minutes have passed now. | :29:19. | :29:25. | |
We are on the final lap of the bike ride. They are on the red tarmac of | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
Hyde Park, getting back into transition, where they have got to | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
get things right. Remember that Jonny Brownlee was penalised be | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
getting on his bike at the wrong time. Everybody will be making sure | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
they get off their bikes at the correct stage when they come into | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
transition. Stuart Hayes glances over his shoulder. He can see | :29:48. | :29:54. | |
Alistair, and Jonny is a couple of places behind him. Atkinson of | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
Australia is on the right. They are all starting to think about | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
transition, and they will start to slip their feet out of their shoes | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
and place them on top to make it an easy dismount as they hit the blue | :30:07. | :30:17. | |
:30:17. | :30:23. | ||
thing for the Brownlees brothers. Gavin no-ball of the Republic of | :30:23. | :30:33. | |
:30:33. | :30:38. | ||
Ireland makes his move. -- Gavin noble. Kris Gemmell comes in first. | :30:38. | :30:44. | |
They run alongside their bikes. We keep our eyes on the man at the | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
front, Alistair Brownlee. His younger brother is parallel with | :30:48. | :30:57. | |
him. They will put their running shoes on. Alistair is on the right, | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
Jonny is on the left. Jonathan has the 15 second penalty. They are on | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
their way. Gomez and Luis have been joined at the front by the Brownlee | :31:10. | :31:19. | |
brothers. He they now head out for a ten-metre run around the park. | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
Stuart Hayes' work is done, he will still run and finish the race, but | :31:25. | :31:30. | |
we have four or five who have kicked away from the front of the | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
field at the second transition. Alistair Brownlee leads the Olympic | :31:34. | :31:40. | |
triathlon, his brother Jonny is on his shoulders. Such professionalism | :31:40. | :31:46. | |
by Stuart Hayes. We were watching everybody preparing. Tyler | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
Butterfield is coming through, he has been working on the longer | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
distances recently. Stuart Hayes kept his shoes on right into | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
transition. He had to give up those few seconds but that was his job | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
and he did so well. Well done, for Great Britain. Into this 10 | :32:03. | :32:08. | |
kilometre run, a bit of a false dawn to start with. The athlete | :32:08. | :32:13. | |
pretty much get out together. Then we see the jockeying and the hard | :32:13. | :32:20. | |
work. We will see if Alistair and Jonny have been prepared to work at | :32:20. | :32:28. | |
the front, is Gomez going to go with them. We saw him play his | :32:28. | :32:32. | |
raised to an ideal situation, the Russian. Stay at the back, work | :32:32. | :32:38. | |
himself through and give himself every opportunity. The other two | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
Spaniards have arrived at their transition. Alistair Brownlee leads | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
on are the first lap of four to compete this 10,00-metre run. | :32:49. | :32:59. | |
:32:59. | :33:13. | ||
Zealand, Vasiliev. There is ain't - - and out and back at the start of | :33:13. | :33:21. | |
the lap. The Brownlee boys and Gomez have opened up a lead of four | :33:21. | :33:29. | |
seconds to the next best. This is crucial for Jonny Brownlee, he has | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
to go away with the Leeds pack. He has the 15th second penalty to | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
serve later on. The speed of that, my goodness. Alistair Brownlee | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
looks like an 800-metre runner going through there. Johnny, | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
covering everything. They have put their market down early. This | :33:49. | :33:55. | |
really is 100% effort from the first step. Passing in front of the | :33:55. | :34:02. | |
Princess Diana Memorial Fountain. You could see the massive group of | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
people watching on the big screen in Hyde Park, enjoying the | :34:06. | :34:16. | |
:34:16. | :34:21. | ||
competition. Alistair Brownlee starting to make a move through the | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
field. Unofficially, they are trying to take a time split again. | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
Already, I think we have nine seconds between our three leaders. | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
Jonny Brownlee decided what he needed to do to get rid of this 15 | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
second penalty. You know what? If he carries on running like this, he | :34:39. | :34:49. | |
:34:49. | :34:53. | ||
could serve the penalty and still absolutely extraordinary. | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
Phenomenal numbers have come out today to support the Brownlee | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
brothers. And the athletes from all over the world. Everybody is | :35:03. | :35:06. | |
getting well-supported at the London Games. Today, they want to | :35:06. | :35:12. | |
see another gold medal for Great Britain. 18 gold medals so far for | :35:12. | :35:20. | |
Team GB. Can Alistair or Jonny deliver 19? Cell of Portugal, | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
Bryukhankov of Russia, Vidal of France. The three French guys are | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
tightly bunched together. They look exhausted compared to the three at | :35:30. | :35:38. | |
the front. Alistair, Jonathan and Gomez of Spain, 1, 2 and 3. | :35:38. | :35:43. | |
Tactically, how well the French did, three athletes in the top 12. They | :35:43. | :35:51. | |
have superb -- they have saved their legs. It has almost gone to | :35:51. | :35:57. | |
script. We are so used to seeing surprises and the unexpected. | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
Everybody's thoughts at the beginning, Alistair Brownlee, Jonny | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
Brownlee and Javier Gomez will be the three players and so it has | :36:05. | :36:11. | |
proved. You have to say, the Dixon tactics come into play in triathlon | :36:11. | :36:21. | |
:36:21. | :36:32. | ||
are making themselves felt -- the Konno Gomez is a very good runner. | :36:32. | :36:39. | |
He has tasted success on this course already Allsop he was second | :36:39. | :36:45. | |
in Hamburg, third behind the brothers. He knows what he has got | :36:45. | :36:51. | |
to do, he knows he has to keep tabs on them to hamper their opportunity | :36:51. | :36:59. | |
of -- to have an opportunity of getting in the medals. He will also | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
note that Jonny has a 15 second penalty -- he will also know that. | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
Gomez has to stay with the Brownlees, but he cannot afford to | :37:07. | :37:12. | |
let it go to a sprint. When we get to the last two-and-a-half, three | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
kilometres, I think Javier Gomez will have to make a break to go | :37:17. | :37:22. | |
early. If he does try to stay there, I don't think that will be | :37:22. | :37:28. | |
successful. Again, we have got to bring back the other element of the | :37:28. | :37:33. | |
15 second penalty that Jonny Brownlee has to serve. These are | :37:33. | :37:39. | |
the chasers, Bryukhankov with them. They approach the end of the first | :37:39. | :37:49. | |
:37:49. | :37:54. | ||
Javier Gomez of Spain is second, Jonathan Brownlee is third. They | :37:54. | :38:00. | |
have just passed the penalty box, we will see if Jonny stands in | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
there for the 15 seconds, possibly, at the end of the second lap. They | :38:05. | :38:11. | |
have just completed the first. Vicky, those were the three we | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
would have predicted to be right at the front. Absolutely. It doesn't | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
always happen in the Olympic Games but those are the three favourites, | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
it is good to see them running away. They have got a clear gap, Jonny | :38:22. | :38:27. | |
still has a penalty to take. It is not game over. They have a good gap | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
on the next group coming through. Johnny could use the penalty to his | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
advantage and try to use that to help overhaul Gomez as a potential | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
break in the race. The nothing to worry about, he is still in medal | :38:40. | :38:45. | |
contention. Derry family. It will depend what colour, with a bit of | :38:45. | :38:55. | |
:38:55. | :39:10. | ||
the pace at the front of this Olympic triathlon race, as they | :39:10. | :39:14. | |
cross the Serpentine Bridge. And they go out and back to begin the | :39:14. | :39:20. | |
second of four laps. Great input from Vicky Holland, thinking ahead. | :39:20. | :39:26. | |
15 seconds, maybe 16, the time gap between our three leaders and the | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
chasing pack. If Jonathan decides to take the penalty at the end of | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
lap number two, when he comes out of the penalty box, he will have | :39:34. | :39:43. | |
other athletes around him. We have seen it previously, that the | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
thinking time means that the athlete comes out very highly | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
motivated and determined to do well. As the Vicky said, certainly not | :39:50. | :39:56. | |
all over for Jonny by any means. He could make it work to his advantage. | :39:56. | :40:01. | |
They come around the out and back. We see the time difference between | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
the front three and the chasers as they are eyeball each other on the | :40:04. | :40:12. | |
way back into the centre of Hyde Park. Vidal and Hauss and one of | :40:12. | :40:18. | |
the Russians, it is about 21 seconds, the gap between the front | :40:18. | :40:23. | |
three and the chasing three. three French athletes are currently | :40:23. | :40:33. | |
:40:33. | :40:47. | ||
front. The added interest of the 15 seconds to be taken. Does Jonny -- | :40:47. | :40:57. | |
:40:57. | :41:01. | ||
have the leg speed? A what I am not sure he will go back with Gomez but | :41:01. | :41:11. | |
:41:11. | :41:21. | ||
he could still be in contention for not an easy looking runner. | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
Alistair continues to push the pace out in front of this Olympic | :41:24. | :41:31. | |
triathlon. Javier Gomez on his shoulder, watching and waiting. It | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
is Jonny Brownlee who is there at this stage. Javier Gomez has done | :41:36. | :41:42. | |
everything that has been asked of him. He has covered every single | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
move, every single acceleration. Look at these pictures in the park, | :41:47. | :41:52. | |
absolutely extraordinary. Sorry to interrupt. Unbelievable numbers | :41:52. | :41:56. | |
watching on the big screen. I am not surprised, I refer to it | :41:56. | :42:06. | |
:42:06. | :42:11. | ||
earlier. I think the organiser of night, there were getting into the | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
park at 5:30am to get a position and I was laughing at them. I was | :42:14. | :42:22. | |
wrong. If they arrived for the start of the race, there would not | :42:22. | :42:29. | |
have got in. To me, the fascination is coming down to what happens when | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
Jonny takes the 15 second gap. Is he going to be able to get back on | :42:34. | :42:44. | |
:42:44. | :42:49. | ||
to the leaders? You could not write in a second and put himself in the | :42:49. | :42:57. | |
penalty box to take the 15 seconds that he was dished out for, for | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
mounting his bike too early on the way out of transition after the | :43:00. | :43:07. | |
swim. Alistair kicks at the front, a little uphill moment for a few | :43:07. | :43:14. | |
yards. He decided to move the pace up a fraction as well. These are | :43:14. | :43:20. | |
the guys in 4th, 5th and 6. Bryukhankov is in 7th at this stage. | :43:20. | :43:30. | |
:43:30. | :43:42. | ||
Lorant Vidal -- Laurent Vidal is in they came out of the water. The | :43:42. | :43:48. | |
signs are clear for Jonny Brownlee to save. They say, penalty box, 200 | :43:48. | :43:54. | |
metres. He knows exactly where to go to take what is effectively a 15 | :43:54. | :44:04. | |
:44:04. | :44:09. | ||
something else comes into play, as well. Alistair is leading, Javier | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
Gomez in second. I am pretty sure they both think they can out sprint | :44:14. | :44:19. | |
Gomez. Would there be any possibility of Alistair Brownlee | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
gradually slowing the pace down so that his brother can get back to | :44:22. | :44:30. | |
them? I can't believe that he would take the chance of doing that and | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
negate his sprint finish, but you don't know with these two. They | :44:34. | :44:41. | |
have proved so many times that they can finish one and two. It is | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
amazing the amount of times they have put between themselves and the | :44:46. | :44:52. | |
chasing athletes into laps. So even when Jonny serves that penalty, he | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
will come out in bronze medal position. Suddenly the whole race | :44:57. | :45:04. | |
takes on a Formula One element. He wants to going for the penalty but | :45:04. | :45:13. | |
still emerge in front of his competitors. And he is not taking | :45:13. | :45:21. | |
account this time. We think he is waiting until the end of lap three | :45:21. | :45:31. | |
:45:31. | :45:38. | ||
to go into the penalty box. Just that long shot there within | :45:38. | :45:44. | |
indication of the gap. What a great performance these French athletes | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
have had. If this was a team competition, wouldn't they be | :45:49. | :45:58. | |
winning it? To re emphasise, despite Jonny Brownlee's penalty | :45:58. | :46:06. | |
that he has to take, he would still be in contention for bronze. Just | :46:06. | :46:11. | |
2.5 kilometres to go. Does he feel he would have the ability to sprint | :46:11. | :46:17. | |
back to Gomez? Anything is possible. What a race this has turned out to | :46:17. | :46:23. | |
be. Alistair need to push along at the front of the field. Jonny | :46:23. | :46:29. | |
Brownlee allowing a few metres to former between him in third and the | :46:29. | :46:34. | |
two leaders out in second and first. Jonny Brownlee is struggling out to | :46:34. | :46:39. | |
maintain this sort of pace, and he still has a 15 second penalty to | :46:39. | :46:46. | |
come. Maybe he is now just focusing on the bronze medal. Alistair is | :46:46. | :46:53. | |
heading out with Gomez for company. And there it is the first time we | :46:53. | :46:58. | |
have seen any weaknesses in Jonny Brownlee's armoury at all. Maybe | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
the maintenance of that speed has created that gap. And now the mind | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
games will start. He has worked so hard to stay with the others at the | :47:08. | :47:13. | |
front, and if has not been able to do that, has he blown it? What will | :47:13. | :47:21. | |
happen when he takes his 15 seconds? These will be the thoughts. | :47:21. | :47:26. | |
If that time difference multiply as and multiply as, it will bring the | :47:26. | :47:32. | |
French athletes back in contention. Berry's six seconds now between | :47:32. | :47:38. | |
Alistair in first and Jonathan in third. The leaders are now Alistair | :47:38. | :47:46. | |
Brownlee of Great Britain, Javier Gomez of Spain. On the third lap of | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
four on the triathlon. Another penalty being taken, the Argentine | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
has been sent into the penalty box. He has taken his, and that is what | :47:56. | :48:03. | |
will happen to Jonathan later. And now Alistair has made a move on | :48:03. | :48:10. | |
Gomez. It is not race-winning daylight, but it is a significant | :48:10. | :48:16. | |
move at the front of the field Alistair Brownlee. He has now got a | :48:16. | :48:23. | |
gap of 1.5 seconds over Javier Gomez of Spain. And this is just | :48:23. | :48:29. | |
where you might imagine that Javier Gomez would make his move. He needs | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
to try on the third lap to get away from this printing capabilities of | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
Alistair Brownlee. Alistair knows that. It is not a significant gap, | :48:39. | :48:43. | |
but there is a 10m base, and that perhaps would give Jonny Brownlee a | :48:43. | :48:50. | |
little hope as well. Alistair Brownlee leaves the Olympic | :48:50. | :48:56. | |
triathlon ahead of Javier Gomez of Spain. There are tens of thousands | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
watching on the giant screens in Hyde Park, and alongside the | :49:01. | :49:09. | |
Serpentine they are 10, 12, 15 deep in places. Gomez is not allowing | :49:09. | :49:18. | |
Alistair Brownlee to get too far in front of him. The Spanish flags are | :49:18. | :49:23. | |
in evidence alongside the Serpentine as well. Third out of | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
the water, 4th after the bike, but he was always with the the Leeds. | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
The French runners currently battling for 4th and 5th at this | :49:33. | :49:40. | |
stage. It is such a tough call for Javier Gomez, with the two brothers, | :49:40. | :49:46. | |
the Brownlee boys, all the energy in Hyde Park, every country | :49:46. | :49:54. | |
represented, but huge, huge shouts, cheers, applause for the Brown | :49:54. | :50:01. | |
leads -- the Brownlees. Can he used that to try to get himself back | :50:01. | :50:09. | |
into contention? I don't think that gap has opened any more at all. It | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
is almost like an invisible elastic band, he is trying to draw himself | :50:13. | :50:19. | |
back in. To me, it looks as though Jonny Brownlee went through a bad | :50:19. | :50:25. | |
patch, but he has re-established the cadence. He has his eye is | :50:25. | :50:31. | |
totally focused on Gomez, and Alistair Brownlee is looking as if | :50:31. | :50:36. | |
he could have made an important break. Brownlee leads the way, he | :50:36. | :50:46. | |
:50:46. | :50:46. | ||
has opened a gap of about 10m now. Harris and the Dahl are contending | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
for bronze if they can move up one journey Brownlee after he takes his | :50:50. | :51:00. | |
:51:00. | :51:04. | ||
penalty. It is not all over by any means. The penalty times, wreath -- | :51:04. | :51:11. | |
we think about that, but the French runners are running a kg race, | :51:11. | :51:17. | |
knowing that Jonny has got to make that penalty. They think if they | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
can get into the final lap alongside him, we could see one of | :51:21. | :51:31. | |
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the French athletes taking a medal. Alistair Brownlee leads, Javier | :51:32. | :51:37. | |
Gomez in second, and Jonny Brownlee still with a penalty to take is in | :51:37. | :51:44. | |
third. Alistair maintains his focus at the front. Keeping up a good | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
rhythm, good speed here. Look at the encouragement he is receiving | :51:49. | :51:55. | |
along the way. Alistair Brownlee from rare West Yorkshire leading | :51:55. | :52:03. | |
the Olympic triathlon through Hyde Park. Keeping a decent gap from the | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
man who is going for the silver medal, Javier Gomez. And Jonny is | :52:09. | :52:15. | |
heading for the penalty box. He will have to stop and stand, and | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
time will tick past very slowly for Jonny Brownlee as he takes his | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
place in the penalty box. He has gone in behind that screen, and he | :52:24. | :52:34. | |
will have to watch. 10 seconds. He keeps himself moving. Another | :52:34. | :52:39. | |
couple of seconds and he will be released. And he is away again! He | :52:39. | :52:44. | |
stumbled as he came out of the penalty box, but Great Britain are | :52:44. | :52:49. | |
still on for two out of the three Olympic medals here. Maybe Gomez | :52:49. | :52:56. | |
will tire as Jonny looks over his shoulder to see how close the | :52:56. | :53:04. | |
French runners are. He is still in bronze medal position. A five- | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
second gap, two-and-a-half kilometres to go. What is the time | :53:09. | :53:13. | |
gap between Gomez and Jonny Brownlee? That is what we are | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
looking for. The difference between Alistair and Gomez is five, and the | :53:19. | :53:24. | |
difference between Gomez and Brownlee is another 27 seconds. | :53:24. | :53:34. | |
That really is a tough catch. French guys are another 13 seconds | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
behind Jonny. He has a 13 second cushion to hold onto that bronze | :53:39. | :53:46. | |
medal. And that's not much at all. We saw how he was suffering at the | :53:46. | :53:50. | |
beginning of lap number three. It will have broken his rhythm, going | :53:50. | :53:56. | |
into the penalty box, perhaps taken a little bit of confidence. At the | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
moment, it looks very much like Alistair Brownlee and Javier Gomez, | :54:01. | :54:05. | |
but I think everything is to play for in the bronze. It is not over | :54:05. | :54:14. | |
by any means. Alistair Brownlee is on his way on the final lap. Less | :54:14. | :54:24. | |
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than 2.5 kilometres to run. The gap is no significant as they | :54:24. | :54:29. | |
approached for the last time. Jonathan Brownlee maintains his | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
position in third, and looks to be more comfortable than he was before | :54:33. | :54:39. | |
he entered the penalty box. A moment Alistair to enjoy as he | :54:39. | :54:46. | |
passes Gomez. Gomez comes around the yellow marker and out and back. | :54:46. | :54:52. | |
And now the two brothers will see each other. In first on the left, | :54:52. | :54:58. | |
Alistair. In third on the right, Jonathan. And between them is Gomez | :54:58. | :55:08. | |
of Spain. Here are the two French triathletes, doing battle for 4th | :55:08. | :55:14. | |
and 5th at this stage unless they can find some speed over this last | :55:14. | :55:21. | |
two kilometres. That is absolutely fascinating. Alistair Brownlee | :55:21. | :55:28. | |
running so strongly, he looks to be moving happily away. The crowd are | :55:28. | :55:38. | |
cheering him on. So many British supporters there, a wall of sound. | :55:38. | :55:42. | |
And on the long shot, just beginning to move away quite | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
significantly. One kilometre for Alistair Brownlee, the leader in | :55:47. | :55:55. | |
the Olympic triathlon. He has timed it brilliantly so far. Gomez has so | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
far had no response on the run. He is running for silver from Spain | :56:00. | :56:07. | |
here. He has triumphed in Hyde Park in the past. It looks at the moment | :56:07. | :56:14. | |
as if he will have to settle for second best from Alistair today. | :56:14. | :56:23. | |
And what a race Alistair has had. He requires the skills of Michael | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
Phelps followed by some of them Bradley Wiggins and Mo Farah's | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
ability at the end, to run at the 10 K after all the efforts that | :56:33. | :56:40. | |
have gone before. Alistair Brownlee is the best so far, and he is | :56:40. | :56:45. | |
approaching the end of his Olympic triathlon in good shape. Alistair I | :56:45. | :56:52. | |
know will be absolutely delighted to win this event. It is still | :56:52. | :56:57. | |
fascinating, looking at Gomez working so hard there, he will not | :56:57. | :57:03. | |
give up. But he does seem a little isolated. Does Jonny Brownlee have | :57:03. | :57:09. | |
anything left to catch him for the silver medal? The gap is enormous | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
now alongside the Serpentine. There is the second place man, Javier | :57:14. | :57:23. | |
Gomez. Brownlee heads towards the crowds on the side of the course he | :57:23. | :57:28. | |
or are roaring him through the biggest race of his life so far. He | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
is looking weary, looking tired, but he has surely got enough in his | :57:32. | :57:38. | |
legs to finish the job in Hyde Park today, and take the gold medal. | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
Gomez rounds the corner and glances back to have a look, position of | :57:42. | :57:50. | |
Jonathan Brownlee, who stays in bronze medal position. What does | :57:50. | :57:55. | |
that look tell us? Is Gomez feeling a little tired and worrying about | :57:55. | :57:59. | |
Jonny Brownlee coming back on him? Or is he looking back and thinking, | :57:59. | :58:06. | |
I have more than enough gap now. Jonny Brownlee coming through, | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
looking back at the tiny bit fresher now. He is not giving up on | :58:11. | :58:16. | |
this silver medal. He will chase and chase and chase. There is the | :58:16. | :58:20. | |
man who currently has the silver medal, being hunted down by | :58:20. | :58:28. | |
Jonathan Brownlee. The French pair have spread. It is an 18 second gap | :58:28. | :58:34. | |
now between the lead and third place, between Alistair in first | :58:34. | :58:38. | |
and Jonathan in third position here as we have a look at some of the | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
others. For a day no one not successfully defend his | :58:42. | :58:52. | |
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quest for a gold in Hyde Park. Look at the scenes either side this | :58:58. | :59:06. | |
stretch of tarmac by the turpentine -- the Serpentine. He is giving it | :59:06. | :59:10. | |
everything. He is glancing over his shoulder, he is obviously feeling | :59:10. | :59:16. | |
the pace. Gomez drenches himself, trying to keep himself cool. | :59:16. | :59:22. | |
Alistair Brownlee is digging deep, but still with an injection of pace, | :59:22. | :59:29. | |
as he tries to finish in style. Gomez, in silver-medal position, | :59:29. | :59:33. | |
they come past the penalty area. Once they hit the blue carpet, we | :59:33. | :59:39. | |
will know it is nearly done for Alistair Brownlee. I just wonder if | :59:39. | :59:44. | |
it is going through Alistair's head, what happened a couple of years ago. | :59:44. | :59:49. | |
It is not going to happen today. We are seeing the first British | :59:49. | :59:53. | |
Olympic triathlon champion in the guise of Alistair Brownlee. He | :59:53. | :59:57. | |
knows he has got it now. It has been an absolutely fabulous | :59:57. | :00:02. | |
performance. This is effectively a lap of honour for Alistair Brownlee, | :00:02. | :00:07. | |
as he slows down to a jog on the blue carpet. He has got the Union | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
Jack around his shoulders. He can walk across the line. Alistair | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Brownlee is the Olympic triathlon champion. Great Britain's 19s gold | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
medal of the Games goes to Alistair Brownlee. Javier Gomez takes the | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
silver. There will be both of the brilliant Brownlee brothers on the | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
Olympic podium as Jonathan comes home for bronze. He had to stand | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
and take a 15 second penalty. But he has done enough to hold on. A 15 | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
second gap and still the bronze medal for Jonathan. Tremendous. He | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
is going to be absolutely delighted. We can't take anything away from | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Javier Gomez. He would not give in, he worked and he worked. So did | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
David Hauss, a tactic is superb race, he has learnt that position. | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Laurent Vidal comes through, he looked to be going through a tough | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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period. What a great day for Great Britain and Yorkshire. A fabulous | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
performance by Javier Gomez in the silver-medal position. Goodness me, | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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what a race it was. Co Riederer of Switzerland, hoping to make it a | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
Swiss double following the victory in the women's race on Saturday. In | :01:40. | :01:48. | |
the end, Alistair was too good. What an advert for Great Britain | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
:01:58. | :01:58. | ||
triathlon. It has been a long time coming. We have had pre-race | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
favourites before. A week have come to London, told years on from | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
Sydney, and taken a gold medal, Alistair Brownlee. Docherty | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
finishing now, silver medallist in Athens, the bronze medallist in | :02:16. | :02:26. | |
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for some of the mind or places -- minor places. Bryukhankov was the | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
best of the Russians. Fabian was one of the first out of the water, | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
Luis in the 11th. Hunter Kemper completing his 4th Olympic | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
triathlon. This man had such a big started the season, winning the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
World Championships event in Sydney. -- big start to the season. He | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
hasn't been able to follow it up with any decent result since then. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
We'll keep an eye it on Stuart Hayes, who came and did his job | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
superbly in the water and on the bike. Stuart Hayes was never going | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
to feature in the 10,000-metre run at the end of the triathlon. It is | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
all about Alistair Brownlee who has taken gold for Great Britain. There | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
is Gavin Noble from the Republic of Ireland, finishing three minutes | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
and 22 seconds off the pace. indication of how fast that run was. | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
The athletes of this calibre, having three minutes taken out on | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
this run. Stuart Hayes did a brilliant job and I am sure he gets | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
into the finishing straight, the crowd will acknowledge what he has | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
done for Great Britain. Chris has watched it all from the studio, | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
let's see what she made of the gold medal. It was phenomenal. It is | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
phenomenal for Alistair, great for Jonny, phenomenal for triathlon in | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
Great Britain in general. It was a wonderful performance, it went | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
exactly according to the script. Once they hit the run, there was no | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
question of who was going to take the gold medal. So incredibly | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
pleased for the two Brownlee brothers and Javier Gomez. This is | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
how Alistair brought it home, with the flag around his shoulders. With | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
enough daylight between he and Gomez in second to savour the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
moment, as he crossed the line to win the Olympic triathlon. On home | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
:05:00. | :05:04. | ||
soil. And there is Stuart Hayes, finishing now. 4:43 off the pace | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
but he is absolutely shattered, he was brought in to do a job. A great | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
performance by Stuart Hayes, who could not have done more on the | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
bike section. He covered, every break that went, he was there and | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
dominating the pace, taking advice from Alistair and Jonny, putting | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
himself in the position they wanted to be in. A great performance. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
have just seen Stuart Hayes finish. Before he has had time to catches | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
breath, Sonali Shah has tracked him down. -- catch his breath. What a | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
performance from you. It is not me, it is the two Brownlees. I did my | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
best to help them and it worked, the team tactics helped. Those guys | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
are amazing, I have been training with them for the last month and I | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
couldn't imagine anyone beating them, they are amazing. The crowd | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
was unbelievable. I probably ran a personal best today. Just because | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
of the emotion running past the of the emotion running past the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
crowd. It was a great race. helped Britain win its first | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
triathlon medal, let's not take anything away from you, a gold and | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
a bronze. It is a great moment for British triathlon. Sq we have got | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
it right for once, which is amazing. It has taken us three tries but now | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
we know what we are doing. I want to say thank you, the B T F have | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
done great leading up into this race. How did the crowd feel, | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
cheering you on? Amazing, all over the back -- the bank there, it is | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
unbelievable. Her you must be so pleased to get a personal best at | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
their home triathlon. I don't know if it was, I felt -- it felt like | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
one. It was a good day today. done, you were phenomenal. Thank | :06:52. | :07:02. | |
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What a race, what a day in the park What a race, what a day in the park | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
for Alistair Brownlee. A few tears of joy as he finally realised what | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
he had done. He did what he came to do, to win the Olympic gold medal | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
and to be joined on the podium by his younger brother, Jonathan. | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Alistair Brownlee, on top of the world. He has won the Olympic | :07:25. | :07:34. | |
triathlon in Hyde Park ahead of Well, he has done it, they have | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
done it. The Bradford grammar school boys have done very well, | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
congratulations. Great Britain's 19s gold medal of these games, | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
equalling the total from Beijing. The first medals in triathlon and | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Chrissy Wellington was going bonkers! Give your reaction, please, | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
about what this event means. To the Brownlee boys and to your sport. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
is absolutely phenomenal. Alistair has now won everything there is to | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
win in triathlon, from the junior World Championships all the way | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
through to an Olympic gold medal. It was the most phenomenal | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
performance. He showed you can work incredibly hard on the swim, push | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
the pace on the bike and still go on to what I am sure he is a 29 | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
minute 10 km run. To be joined on the podium by his brother, it must | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
make the victory all the sweeter. This means everything to British | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
triathlon. Whilst it is still a minority sport in terms of media | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
coverage and sponsorship, it is definitely a majority sport in | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
terms of participation. The fastest growing sport in this country at | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
the moment and the crowds are a testament to that. They have come | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
out in tens of thousands. Hundreds of thousands, by the look of it. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
is wonderful. I know that the crowd support would have lifted the | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Brownlees to achieve that phenomenal success was stopped you | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
talked about aggressive tactics from the start and that is what we | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
saw on the swim. In the first transition, Jonny was in a bit of | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
problems. I guess knowing when to take the penalty is an art in | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
itself. Yet, it was interesting to see when he strategically decided | :09:17. | :09:26. | |
to take the penalty, to create a gap for himself. He still had the | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
gap for himself. He still had the cushion to be able to come home in | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
cushion to be able to come home in bronze medal position. I am sure | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
that is something they would have decided before the race. Will there | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
be a tinge of disappointment from Jonny's perspective? How often does | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
that sort of thing happen in that sport? It doesn't happen regularly | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
but there are penalties that are incurred before various | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
misdemeanours. I don't think you'll be too disappointed, he will be | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
thrilled to get on the podium. It looks like he was dropping back | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
into bronze-medal position even before he took the penalty. I think | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
he will be incredibly happy with the result. He is only 22, there is | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
plenty more to come from him, and from Alistair, I am sure. The first | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
brothers from Great Britain to win medals in the same event since the | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Searle brothers in the boat 20 years ago. They were not competing | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
against each other, they were very much in it together. What has been | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
the reaction down there? atmosphere here was crazy when | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
Alistair crossed the line. We have just witnessed Britain's first | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
triathlon medals and you must be so proud of the brothers doing it | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
together. Absolutely, and when they do it like that, you wonder if | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
there was any doubt. They were supreme in all three legs and to | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
come away with it two medals was the objective of the team. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
Congratulations to them. We are used to seeing Alistair winning but | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
I have never seen him get so emotional when he crosses the line | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
for a absolutely, but this is the big one, that everyone wants to win. | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
In some sports it is not typical but in a track it absolutely is -- | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
in triathlon it absolutely is. He has been dominant pretty much since | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
the last Olympics so to win like today was the icing on the cake, I | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
am not surprised at the emotion. The team tactics when pretty much | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
according to plan. Absolutely. They try to make the breakaway state but | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
when it didn't happen they try to keep the pace high -- the breakaway | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
stick. They tried to test the pace of some runners. I think that | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
worked well. Not many of them run to their full potential and I think | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
that is because their legs were tired. Jonny handled the penalty | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
situation well, knowing when to take it and still getting a bronze. | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
It was perfect timing, I would have suggested lap two or three would | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
have been best. He had to wait and it was the right time, for sure. | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
is time to see Alistair and Jonny get their medals, I'll hand you | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
back to our commentators. We will do that, but we have to get off the | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
air very shortly. We are changing channels, we are moving to BBC Two. | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
Don't worry, you will hear from the boys shortly and you will see that | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
medal ceremony over on BBC took -- BBC to put up the 19th gold medal | :12:28. | :12:33. |