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the Olympic champion. -- Sir Chris Hoy is the Olympic | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
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Welcome to date world of London 2012. These are the most successful | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
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There is plenty to look forward to, right from the word go. Tim | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Brabants defences kayak Olympic title this morning, he only just | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
qualified but could he get a medal at Eton Dorney? After his super | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Saturday, Mo Farah is back on track. Can the 5,000-metre world and | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Olympic champion at the Olympic title to complete an historic | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
double? Lynsey Sharpe goes for Great Britain in the 800 metres | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
heats. Can she justified her controversial selection. We will be | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
at the Olympic Stadium from 10 o'clock but before that we off to | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Eton Dorney for the canoe sprint. The home of rowing has been a happy | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
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hunting ground, can Tim Brabants He go first up on BBC Three, | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
taekwondo from the ExCeL. Table tennis and sailing to come later on | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
We just want to show you what it is like outside our BBC studios in the | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
Olympic Park. A wonderful crowd, welcoming us on air and perhaps | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
jeering bill and Hazel from Breakfast out of the way -- perhaps | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
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Sir Chris Hoy it is here, they are pleased to see them. A really great | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
reception. Yesterday brought some stunning gold medal performances, | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
from triathlon to Cycling to equestrian. The gold in the team | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
dressage was not only broke Britain's Olympic medal in that | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
event but it has a special place because that was the moment we | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
surpassed the tally of 19 gold medals in Beijing. That was the | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
20th gold medal of these Games. The cycling gold medals took us to what | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
you see on the medal table. 48 medals is what UK Sport was | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
targeting for these Games, we are looking very secure. There are | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
guaranteed medals in the boxing so the half-century is secure. No | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
wonder it was all smiles at Greenwich Park, when our dress | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
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large three delivered the historic Britain could bring another gold, | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
and the celebrations are still going on from the wonderful gold | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
medal produced by the British showjumper as yesterday. The next | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
horse comes in. But is Great Britain's car has to. -- that is | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
Great Britain's Carl Hester. This is the moment, Carl Hester for | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
Great Britain, with this lovely horse, Utopia. I can't believe the | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
timing. The three of us have three great horses when London decided to | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
host the Olympics. You won't see a better extended trot. Beautiful | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
balance, a lovely bend. This rider, it looks as if he might creep over | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
the 80%. And the team are happy. is the proudest moment of my life | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
and I am so glad to have made it one more Olympics, and come with | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
expectations that we are able to deliver. Now Laura Bechtolsheimer, | :06:28. | :06:37. | |
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long-standing partnership, it feels amazing to have been part of this | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
long progression. It is amazing how this horse has developed its | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
confidence and partnership with Laura. He has been on a huge year | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
and hopefully to finish with a gold medal, I am so proud of the journey | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
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Princess Royal will be delighted with that. What can this young lady | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
do? Charlotte Dujardin, this is for gold for Great Britain. I was a bit | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
more nervous today, because I wanted to come home with a gold | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
medal. Just hold on to your hats, let's hope she keeps this extended | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
trot under control. I wanted to do everybody proud, it was a great | :07:31. | :07:41. | |
feeling. She has made history. They know, and Charlotte nos. She has | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
won Britain's first ever gold in Britain -- in dressage. The first | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
of a medal, and it is a gold. Unbelievable timing. I can't tell | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
you how it feels. So many people supporting us, it makes its super | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
special. Taking it all in. Carl Hester, Loral Bechtolsheimer and | :08:03. | :08:13. | |
Charlotte Dujardin. It -- Laura What a wonderful moment, and they | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
are all with me. Congratulations. You must have hoped you would win | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
any medals, but to see you all sitting here with your gold medals. | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
How does it feel? The timing has been amazing. We had these three | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
great horses or at the same time. They were all with us here for | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
London. They are very different ages. Lloris is very experienced at | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
17, Charlotte has the youngest at 10 -- Laura's is very experienced. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
The younger horse known as the Lionel Messi of dressage, explain | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
why. I only really started last year with that horse. He was only | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
nine last year, I started last year at the Grand Prix. We had never | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
competed at an Olympics. It was great. What has your experience | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
been like? Some of us may not have watched that much grass arch before | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
the big moment yesterday. What does it take to get out there and | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
produce that result? It kind of depends on your horse. Mine is 17 | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
years old but he has been quite a long-winded project. Mentally, he | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
found the movements and a rethink quite easily but he found coping | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
with the pressures of competition most difficult -- the movements and | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
everything. It has taken me to a long time to ride him in front of | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
25,000 people and still keep him under control and pull off a good | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
performance. There are big crowds. That kind of crowd at Greenwich was | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
extraordinary. Yes, we are not used to riding in that a -- in front of | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
-- in front of that kind of audience. It is popular in Europe | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
When you right into a stadium like that, it is a very different | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
feeling. -- when you ride into. The atmosphere can create tension and | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
then you have something else to deal with. Dressage has to look | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
relaxed and easy. Sometimes when you ride in, especially with a home | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
crowd... One of the first movement's you have to do is to | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
canter down the centre line and standstill. Try telling your horse | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
to do that when he has just got very excited. You have to really | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
have to have the horse on side. that one of the hardest things | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
about it? Yes, it takes years to build that up. We have been riding | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
courses for six or seven years. Getting that bond and trust for | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
them to be able to relax and enjoy it. This is your routine. Your | :11:04. | :11:14. | |
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worst nightmare is that something Is always a worry. We have to take | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
care. They are looked after very carefully. We hope nothing does | :11:21. | :11:30. | |
happen. What was your routine like? You plants that particular routine | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
and you're trying to bring out the best in your was -- you plant that | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
particular routine. It was a new test for this year. A slightly | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
shortened format. We have had at year to practise it. It is quite | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
strange when you first ride a new test. Because you are used to | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
riding the same tests all the time. It was quite interesting, getting | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
our heads around the new routine. You keep thinking you have to turn | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
left, right. You practise it at home, you try to complete the | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
routines and a certain amount of time. It shouldn't be too difficult. | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
A Grand Prix dressage horse is supposed to be very well trained. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
And if you ask it to do something, that is what it is supposed to do. | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
We can safely say that the horses and riders got their heads around | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
unsuccessfully yesterday. There is an interesting story linking you, | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
wasn't it Laura's parents who gave you one of your big break? It was. | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
I am from the Channel Islands. I came to England because I wanted to | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
work with horses. I had a job as a groom and a rider for a family. I | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
was getting to the point where I didn't think I was going to be able | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
to stay. And make a living. Laura's father by a telephone to the | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
selectors, who were looking after the under 21s, and said, if there | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
was anybody they thought was looking for a job or had the talent | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
to be a rider for them. I it had an interview, I got the job. Laura was | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
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about three years old at the time. She remembers because I did things | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
like locking her in rooms when she was a child! War the Charlotte came | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
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She came to work with me and has been with my fault six years -- | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
with me for six years. She started at the bottom like everyone else. I | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
put her and her horse together as a partnership. There are lots of | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
talented people but if somebody doesn't give her a break, you never | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
get seen again. I was fortunate I was able to do what her father did | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
for me. Was he a hard taskmaster? He is great. He is always fun. He | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
makes it really enjoyable. first wanted to be a jockey, you | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
wasn't -- you were not sure that dressage was for you. Yes. I was | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
always trained by a dressage trainer who tried to get me to | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
Dhoot dressage when I was doing the showjumping. -- get me to do | :14:27. | :14:36. | |
They knew all ended up at the top of the medal table. -- then it you | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
all ended up. Charlotte ended up with a higher score than you did. | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
That is true. Yesterday morning, I read in the paper, that they | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
thought that coal will end up working for Charlotte after today. | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
I thought, that is not going to happen -- that Carl will end up | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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What happens next to the horses? They are worth a lot of money. Will | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
they be in another Olympics? They should both be in another Olympics. | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
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Not necessarily with us. They are 10 or 11 years old. They have part | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
owners, and they have specifically kept them for us so that we could | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
do the Olympics. And it has all worked out. It is a fairy-tale | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
story. We have to discuss what happens next when we get home. But | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
there is a not -- always another horse to train and bring on. | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
after you have developed a bond with a horse, it must be sad to | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
think of not working with it any more. Have you seen the papers this | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
morning? There is a rather unfortunate picture on the front of | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
the Daily Express, which is celebrating Britain's gold medals, | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
but has a picture of the Dutch bronze medallists rather than the | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
three of you. Hopefully, this kind of thing will not happen in the | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
future, because you have put dressage on the map. They are also | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
two girls in a boy -- and a boy, nothing like as! It is a shame | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
things like that happened. We work extremely hard at our sport. It has | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
taken years to get to this level. It is fantastic that we managed to | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
bring it to the front, because people's perception of it has not | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
always been great. But we are three very hard-working people. Lots of | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
people will think, this is a very expensive hobby or sport to be part | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
of. It takes a lot of money to have a horse at this level and be able | :16:53. | :17:02. | |
to train it. For us, the main legacy to leave behind after the | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
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equestrian Olympics is trying to show, like car was saying in the | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
interviews yesterday, we are three people from extremely different | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
backgrounds who have all had different pasta getting here. We | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
what show that equestrian sport is for anyone who wants to get into it. | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
There are ways of accessing different disciplines and getting | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
involved, if you are prepared to put in the hard work and have | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
talent. You can make your own way to the top. And your route into it | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
was just that you loved horses, Charlotte? It was just a passion | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
and a dream and a fight. It was something I always wanted to do, | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
and I didn't want to give up on it. It is mad to think I have done it | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
now and got a gold medal. At being equestrians, you could have many | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
more Olympics ahead of you. We have been asking all the Olympians about | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
stamps and postboxes. There are stumps already on sale. In terms of | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
the postboxes, will yours be in Sark? Five think so. There is only | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
one postbox in Sark. It is probably very rusty and very old and has | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
stood there for years. I hope they are excited to have a gold one on | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
the island. There are only 600 people there. So in the age of us | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
are all using telephones, I will have to write a letter so that I | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
can put my own letter through the post box! Its sounds like it is | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
time that postbox had a fresh lick of paint. Thank you for being with | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
us this morning. Congratulations again. You are all going on to | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
compete individually. That is tomorrow, when you will compete | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
against each other. Tomorrow, it is the top 18 from yesterday's test. | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
The three of us have all qualified, and we are all in the last group | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
together. Charlotte is only two after me, so maybe I'll get my | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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chance to beat her cheques we will Thank you very much. Enjoyed a | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
golden glow you are all basking in. The it was a really dramatic day at | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
Greenwich yesterday, as it was in the velodrome. | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
It was somewhere there were always high hopes for Britain from the | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
start, but few dared to dream that the seven Cycling golds collected | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
in Beijing could be matched. More of us should have been daring, | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
because Britain's cyclists were in seventh heaven again, repeating | :19:44. | :19:54. | |
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Britain are the world champions, and they will now become the | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
Olympic champions! They are on fire! Hit comes Chris Hoy! Gold | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
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medal for Great Britain, a new world record! If Kenny is the | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
Olympic sprint champion! He wins the gold Medal, and he won it in | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
style. Victoria Pendleton has ignited the burners! She is the | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
Olympic keirin champion. The gold medal is Great Britain's! Oh, look | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
at the time! It is a new world record. Laura Trott is on fire! | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
Victoria Pendleton's career Wrens on a silver medal. Chris Hoy gets a | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
So great # God save our gracious Queen. | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
Seven golds in the velodrome. No other nation won more than one. It | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
is a personal milestone for Sir Chris Hoy, who has now surpassed | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
Sir Steve Redgrave's record of five Olympic gold medals. At the end of | :21:46. | :21:56. | |
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a night to remember, we brought two remarkable sportsmen together. | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
Absolutely amazing. Are you going to race in the Olympics again? | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
has to be done. Wonderful to see you here, | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
celebrating. 11 gold medals between you. Steve is an inspiration. I | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
used to be a role as a schoolboy. We looked up to Steve and all the | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
rowers. To me, he will always be the greatest, no matter how many | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
medals anybody wins. He has an inspiration and he won a five | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
consecutive medals, which is different to winning multiple golds. | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
We saw the family all here. The emotion bubbled over. Before I got | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
on the podium. I was watching the athletics yesterday, and I was | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
getting emotional watching Felix Sanchez. When you realise how many | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
things have not gone well over the last four years, you doubt yourself | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
and take nothing for granted. Seeing Vicky's race, everyone was | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
expecting her to win. But you can take nothing for granted. Nothing | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
is assured. I wanted to do the best I could. I was going to celebrate | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
any medal, a bronze, silver or gold. The audience have given us that | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
extra percentage. It was the most unbelievable experience of my life. | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
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You have done us proud. You did it all on your home, mate. Cheers. | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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remarkable a Olympians, two Another day to remember for British | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
sport, and the medal that began it came in the men's triathlon in Hyde | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
Park. Alistair Brownlee cemented his position as the world's leading | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
triathlete, and despite a few trials and tribulations, brother | :24:39. | :24:49. | |
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Jonny made sure it was a family to begin the Olympic triathlon. The | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
Slovakian Leeds. Alistair Brownlee and Jonathan Bramley are in fourth | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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pedalling. Here are the leaders. This group of five exited the | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Serpentine together, hit transition together and are leading the race | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
together. We have got a man down. Somebody has hit the deck early. It | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
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brought in to do. He is leading the competition. The Brownlee brothers | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
are right in there. We are hearing that Jonathan Brownlee might have a | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
15 second penalty for mounting his bike too early. Javier Gomez is on | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
his way. Gomez and the Frenchmen have been joined at the front by | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
the Brownlee brothers, who now head out for a 10,000m run around the | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
park. The two Brown the boys and Javier Gomez have opened up a lead | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
of four seconds to the next best. The speed of but, my goodness. | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
Alistair Brownlee looks like a 800m runner rather than a 10 kilometre | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
runner. This is a hundred % effort. John E Brownlee is she struggling | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
to maintain the pace. Jonny Brownlee heads for the penalty box. | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
Time will tick past very slowly. He is away again. He stumbled as he | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
came out of the penalty box. first British Olympic triathlon | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
champion, in the guise of Alistair Brownlee! Alistair Brownlee is the | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
Olympic triathlon champion. Javier Gomez takes the silver, as Jonathan | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
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comes home for bronze. Alistair A fantastic story. That makes it a | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
fifth gold medal for Yorkshire, who now sit above Australia and South | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
Africa in the unofficial medal table! There were some very happy | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
members of the BBC team at that particular result. Norfolk are also | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
celebrating after a successful afternoon for Nick Dempsey in | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
Weymouth. He missed out on a medal in Beijing, while his fiancee Sarah | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
Ayton was clinching her second gold in the yngling. Now both members | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
and family have a medal and plenty of Olympic memories to cherish. | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
Form macro years ago in Beijing, Sarah a tenth claimed her second | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
Olympic gold medal. But as she then had to watch her fiance suffer a | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
final day of agony on the water. Nick Dempsey went out on the water | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
in silver-medal position with the prospect of gold, but will finish | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
fourth. He will be absolutely devastated. It was always going to | :28:18. | :28:25. | |
be close today. It was tight, and we only had one lap, so it made it | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
very difficult. You spend your whole life grooming about getting | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
your gold medal. To be there and feel that you should have got your | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
gold medal and didn't, it was brutal. As a couple, they made a | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
tough decision. Sarah Ayton, on the verge of becoming one of the | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
greatest Olympic female sailors, stepped away from the sport so that | :28:49. | :28:55. | |
her now husband could focus on his Olympic dream. I am very, very, | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
very lucky to have Sarah. Without her, I would not be able to do my | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
Olympic campaign. This is my Olympic campaign now. It is my job | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
to look after the children and let Nick do the things he needs to do. | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
Hopefully, it is enough to make a difference. By London 2012, Dempsey | :29:13. | :29:23. | |
was hoping to put the past beside - - behind him. He has been on | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
blistering form. Dorian van Rijsselberge ran away with the | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
competition and claimed gold two days ago, but Dempsey was on target | :29:30. | :29:36. | |
for silver. My little three-year- old, Thomas, loves it when I bring | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
home a medal from an event. And I did promise him I would bring a | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
medal home from this event. It would be nice to not have broken | :29:43. | :29:50. | |
that promise. The Olympic final is off and begun. Can Great Britain | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
win silver? Good start for Poland, but Dempsey has the best start on | :29:54. | :30:00. | |
the left. What a start from Nick Dempsey. Netherlands look like they | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
have to squeeze round in front of them see. No pressure on Dorian van | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
Rijsselberge. He hasn't -- already won the gold. But Dempsey Poms hard | :30:09. | :30:18. | |
Olympic glory for the Netherlands, but Nick Dempsey, broken in Beijing, | :30:18. | :30:26. | |
has brought a silver to his son. He has delivered. It has been a pretty | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
difficult four years. I always believed that to come here and do | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
well and have all my friends and family here and do it in front of | :30:33. | :30:43. | |
:30:43. | :30:45. | ||
your home crowd, it doesn't get any Mission completed and Olympic medal | :30:45. | :30:55. | |
:30:55. | :30:58. | ||
to -- medal secured, it is time to With parents like that, there is | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
every chance that the young Thomas could take to the water with those | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
genes. How about a saline medal to look for two in 2032? -- a sailing | :31:09. | :31:15. | |
medal. Eton Dorney has provided grip Britain with four medals in | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
the rowing regatta -- provided Great Britain with. There has been | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
a healthy dose of realism after Tim Brabants only just scraped through. | :31:24. | :31:34. | |
:31:34. | :31:38. | ||
Can he draw on the memories of big event. The final is under way | :31:38. | :31:48. | |
:31:48. | :31:49. | ||
and Tim Brabants has jumped out of the start. Two paddlers are going | :31:49. | :31:58. | |
player, Tim Brabants and van Koeverden. -- going clear. Tim | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
Brabants is devouring the course, each and every stroke. Has he got | :32:02. | :32:09. | |
enough to hold on? He grits his teeth, he is looking to push one | :32:09. | :32:17. | |
last time. Tim Bradman's comes up to the line, he pedals into the | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
record books, it is gold -- Tim Brabants comes up to the line. He | :32:22. | :32:32. | |
:32:32. | :32:35. | ||
punches the air. No one came near A golden moment from four years ago | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
four Dr Tim Brabants. Rishi Persad is at Eton Dorney. That moment is | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
why he went into these Olympics with this expectation. Yes, he is | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
also the greatest canoeist that Great Britain has ever seen. The | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
first gold medal that grow Britain ever won in canoeing. Hopes were | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
high that four years later he would be able to do the same. He took 18 | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
months off after Beijing, he did the same things after Athens, to | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
pursue a career as a doctor. He is a qualified A&E doctor. When he | :33:08. | :33:13. | |
came back, he suffered an injury. He ripped tendons in his shoulder | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
and that set him back enormously. He has suffered illness as well. It | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
has taken a long time to get back to his best form. In the heats on | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
Monday he struggled to show his best form. He scraped through by | :33:25. | :33:30. | |
the skin of his teeth, four hundredths of a second into the | :33:30. | :33:35. | |
final. He is in the final. He is in lane one. But if you look behind me, | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
the flags at the top of the grandstand are pretty still. On | :33:39. | :33:46. | |
Monday lane one was a negative role but it is not too bad. -- was a | :33:46. | :33:51. | |
negative draw. He will have the huge crowd cheering him on, which | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
he said it was a huge positive on Monday. That is what the row has | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
said all the way along. How is it looking at Eton Dorney -- that is | :34:00. | :34:08. | |
what the Rose said it all the way There is not that much of a cross | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
wind. If there is, it will affect them in the first five metres of | :34:13. | :34:19. | |
the rest. In the tunnel of the grandstand it takes away the effect | :34:19. | :34:28. | |
of the wind -- the first 500 metres His is the first final, but it | :34:28. | :34:34. | |
isn't the only gold up for grabs at Eton Dorney. We have the girls | :34:34. | :34:41. | |
going in the women's kayak for 500 metres. Go it is normally dominated | :34:41. | :34:47. | |
by Germany and Hungary. Four years ago, GB sport identified it is | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
possible to win a medal, perhaps not the gold or silver, but there | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
is an opening in the bronze-medal position. They put a team together. | :34:55. | :35:00. | |
The four girls who have been competing finished 4th in the World | :35:00. | :35:02. | |
Championships last year and earned a spot in the Olympics. They | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
replaced one member of the team, Angela Hannah has come in as the | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
4th girl in the team. They are hoping to find the extra four | :35:09. | :35:13. | |
hundredths of a second required to win the medal. They finished second | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
in their heat and 4th in the semi- final. There is a hope they could | :35:17. | :35:24. | |
squeeze a medal. Altogether, there are four gold medals on offer in | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
the canoe sprint. Will the first bring a medal for Tim Brabants? | :35:28. | :35:36. | |
Here is your guide to the Inns and Canoe sprint. There are two | :35:36. | :35:44. | |
distinct types of boat. Canoe and kayaked. The kayak is raised by one, | :35:44. | :35:53. | |
two or four competitors, known as k one, K2 and K-For. They are | :35:53. | :35:59. | |
contested by men over distances of 201,000 metres. Women compete over | :35:59. | :36:09. | |
:36:09. | :36:13. | ||
The canoe is also contested over 200, and 1,000 metres. The canoe is | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
propelled from a kneeling position using a single bladed puddles and | :36:17. | :36:24. | |
is directed using a stroke on just one side of the boat. The first to | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
cross the line is the winner but a photo is often required. Dead heats | :36:30. | :36:40. | |
:36:40. | :36:41. | ||
will see both progress but they may be forced to re-race if places are | :36:41. | :36:51. | |
That is how it works. Here is a view of the course at Eton Dorney, | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
all ready for the canoe sprint competitions. This is the first | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
final coming up in a moment, for Tim Brabants. He is a Beijing gold | :37:00. | :37:10. | |
:37:10. | :37:18. | ||
medallist, Olympic champion, hoping tempered by the realism that Tim | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
Brabants is not in the form that carried him to gold in Beijing four | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
years ago. His main goal was to reach the final and see what | :37:26. | :37:33. | |
happens when the crowd can give you an extra lift. Realistically, look | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
out for Max Hoff, European champion for the last four years. Also, Adam | :37:37. | :37:43. | |
van Koeverden, the world champion last year. Not an easy race to call | :37:43. | :37:49. | |
for the order of the medals. The first medals to be decided on the | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
water in the canoe sprint. Paulson from Denmark is in with a chance. | :37:53. | :38:03. | |
:38:03. | :38:15. | ||
Not at his impressive best in the settle the medals in the K1 1,000 | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
metres. The roar will grow for Tim Brabants as they approach the | :38:19. | :38:24. | |
stands, who will take it out quickest? Van Koeverden off to a | :38:24. | :38:29. | |
fantastic start, he jumped out of the bucket. He leads from the early | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
stages, really setting the pace. The world champion in this event | :38:34. | :38:41. | |
last year in Hungary. The Olympic gold medallist from Athens. Already, | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
a length up on the rest as they tried to close down. Others will | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
set the pace at different times. Tim Brabants usually goes out | :38:49. | :38:57. | |
quickly. It is Adam van Koeverden who is powering to the quarter way | :38:57. | :39:07. | |
:39:07. | :39:07. | ||
mark. He is ahead of Rennie Paulsen make sure they don't let Adam get | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
too far away. He is renowned for these past stars but it is about | :39:12. | :39:17. | |
whether he can hold on. He drives with those lakes, connects the | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
middle part of the body and drives the blade into the deep part of the | :39:22. | :39:32. | |
:39:32. | :39:35. | ||
van Koeverden and the rest. We look down from the finish line. Where | :39:35. | :39:43. | |
medals wait for three of these men, as they power up towards the stand. | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
The coaches are cycling along on the towpath, half an eye on the | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
athletes and half an eye on the clutter of the peloton. Van | :39:52. | :40:02. | |
:40:02. | :40:08. | ||
rhythm and technique. Looking relaxed with his shoulders, puffing | :40:08. | :40:13. | |
with his cheeks as he comes into the latter part of the race. In the | :40:13. | :40:21. | |
last 200 metres the lungs start to burn. Does van Koeverden have the | :40:21. | :40:29. | |
staying power? Last and is in there. The green Norwegian boat is | :40:29. | :40:39. | |
:40:39. | :40:44. | ||
creeping into picture -- last and metres in the K1 1,000 metres. It | :40:44. | :40:53. | |
is all about van Koeverden and Larsen. Does Max Hoff have | :40:53. | :41:02. | |
something left? Neck and neck for gold and silver, van Koeverden and | :41:02. | :41:11. | |
last and, into the final 150 metres. That is how far they are. It is the | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
:41:21. | :41:21. | ||
Norwegian, pushing clear. Erik Larson from Adam van Koeverden. Tim | :41:21. | :41:27. | |
Brabants, further down, listening to the roars. His Olympic title | :41:27. | :41:36. | |
will go to someone else, it looks like it will be Larsen. He has the | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
gold medal from the van Koeverden. Max half coming through for bronze. | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
Those are the medals. What a race, timed perfectly, as it so often is, | :41:45. | :41:51. | |
from Larsen, the veteran, 36 years old. He celebrates, he timed his | :41:51. | :41:58. | |
push to perfection. He has the gold medal as reward. What a well- | :41:58. | :42:06. | |
executed race. He did not let Adon get away from them too much. -- did | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
not let Adam get away. Van Koeverden will be disappointed he | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
was not able to hold onto his lead. Most of the crowd knew that this | :42:14. | :42:19. | |
would not be a successful attempt for Tim Brabants. He is not in the | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
form, he has had that injury. But Larsen, a friend of Tim Brabants, a | :42:25. | :42:31. | |
long-term rival. We wondered if he was fading. Because he is getting | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
on a bit now at 36, but not at all. Look how he powered through and | :42:35. | :42:45. | |
took the gold. An extremely controlled performance. Took the | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
experience from the previous 10 and 15 years behind him and executed | :42:50. | :42:56. | |
the race plan that he hoped could get him the Olympic gold. To go | :42:56. | :43:02. | |
with his gold medal, a silver in Beijing, he takes gold again. The | :43:02. | :43:11. | |
first champion of the canoe sprint week at Eton Dorney. His wife is | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
competing here, she was the flag- bearer for Nora at the opening | :43:16. | :43:26. | |
:43:26. | :43:37. | ||
opening ceremony. Tim Brabants was here to see his title handed over. | :43:38. | :43:47. | |
:43:48. | :43:48. | ||
Her all about Larsen, the gold medallist from Norway. A sense | :43:48. | :43:53. | |
Again of what is to come, what the noise and the atmosphere. It is | :43:53. | :43:59. | |
fantastic for rowing and the canoe sprint. Larsen is from the southern | :43:59. | :44:06. | |
tip of Norway, he is on the ground, the rowing takes it out of you. He | :44:07. | :44:10. | |
takes the gold, disappointment for Tim Brabants but I think even he | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
was realistic, he knew he was a very outside chance to get in the | :44:15. | :44:25. | |
:44:25. | :44:28. | ||
Disappointing for Tim Brabants, that he wasn't able to be amongst | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
the medals. As Andrew Cotter was saying, a fantastic effort, | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
considering the on this and injury he suffered over the last couple of | :44:36. | :44:42. | |
seasons. To be in the final and competing, he had to take part in a | :44:42. | :44:49. | |
best of three race against his team mate just took get into the | :44:49. | :44:54. | |
Olympics. He has done well to get into the final. The guys he | :44:54. | :45:01. | |
defeated in Beijing in 2008 have all got better and bigger. Tim has, | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
unfortunately, not been able to press on as much as he would have | :45:04. | :45:09. | |
wanted since Beijing. He is on his way over. One of the good things is | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
that his wife, Michelle, who was not able to see him in Beijing, was | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
here to see him. I was just saying about how tough a row it has been | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
since Beijing. You took some time off but to just be here in the | :45:22. | :45:32. | |
:45:32. | :45:34. | ||
I am happy to be in the final. The guys out there, each of them is a | :45:34. | :45:44. | |
:45:44. | :45:44. | ||
champion. I was pretty much outcast in that race, unfortunately. I feel | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
bad for a lot of the British support here. I had support from my | :45:48. | :45:54. | |
wife, my coach, my team. Everyone was hoping I would get there. Me, | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
too. I felt I could be an Olympic champion again. Sorry to all those | :45:59. | :46:02. | |
who came out to support and are disappointed. You don't have to be | :46:02. | :46:08. | |
sorry for anything. You won the Olympic gold medal for us. You are | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
the greatest canoeist Britain has ever seen. Things have not gone | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
your way over the last few years. No. It was a fantastic build-up to | :46:16. | :46:20. | |
these games, seeing how well Team GB are doing. Last night, watching | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
Chris Hoy in the velodrome motivated me so much. I wanted to | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
add another medal to that tally, so I am disappointed in myself. I feel | :46:29. | :46:35. | |
bad for my coach, who put so much time into getting me into the best | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
shape I could be in. It was a hard race. I am not sure what was wrong. | :46:39. | :46:45. | |
I felt good beforehand. There were some better athletes on the day. | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
What does the future of canoeing hold for you? Eyes and not done yet. | :46:50. | :46:56. | |
You can't go out on eighth place at the Olympics. You can't make | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
decisions now. We work around a four year cycle. This cycle has | :46:59. | :47:04. | |
come to an end. Take a couple of weeks' rest and then look ahead. I | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
have the Royal paddling challenge to do on Monday. Should be fun. | :47:09. | :47:16. | |
Life changes are so much. You have now got a little girl. It makes the | :47:16. | :47:21. | |
whole thing a bit harder. It does, but I am and that ageing athlete | :47:21. | :47:28. | |
now and life moves on. You put it on hold for so long, have children. | :47:28. | :47:32. | |
I know my little one will still be there and be happy to see me, even | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
if my coach isn't! You made us proud four years ago, and you made | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
us proud again by getting to the final. | :47:40. | :47:45. | |
So Tim Brabants, not ending up in the medal table, but a man of so | :47:45. | :47:49. | |
much achievement. Rishi Persad was saying he is the best canoe sprint | :47:49. | :47:55. | |
a Briton has ever produced. The coverage of canoe sprint continues | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
on the red button. The British female quartet will be in the | :48:00. | :48:06. | |
women's K4 race at 10.45 and you can see that live on BBC Three. | :48:06. | :48:11. | |
Four gold medals are up for grabs in the canoe sprint during the day. | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
Now, it is that time of the morning when the stadium starts filling up | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
and we turn our attention to what is happening in the athletics. This | :48:18. | :48:22. | |
morning's races include the first round of the men's 5000m, featuring | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
a certain Mo Farah, and the start of the decathlon. Over to Jonathan | :48:27. | :48:33. | |
Edwards. Yes, Mo Farah back on track. And | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
also in the decathlon, we have the appearance of the new world record | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
holder Ashton Eaton, which should be special. First, we look back at | :48:40. | :48:47. | |
last night's action. Colin Jackson and Brendan Foster are alongside me. | :48:47. | :48:52. | |
You are showing the full range of BBC wardrobe options, it is fair to | :48:52. | :48:59. | |
say. Brendan was actually not expecting to be here. I came | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
dressed for work, and he is dressed for going out. So, another great | :49:03. | :49:07. | |
night last night and another medal for Robbie Grabarz. It was a nice | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
medal. This young man worked so hard. He broke onto our screens | :49:13. | :49:17. | |
indoors, and we thought, who is this young man? For him to come | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
here into the Olympic Stadium and deliver the performance and the | :49:20. | :49:29. | |
bronze medal was a great thing. In this environment, he just excelled. | :49:29. | :49:37. | |
He is a bit of a showman. He loves playing to the crowd. He was | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
probably a lizard -- little disappointed with only jumping 2.29 | :49:42. | :49:47. | |
metres when the Russian jump higher, but Colin's point was well made - | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
this is a different environment from what he is used to. He has | :49:50. | :49:57. | |
only come of age this year. The immediate we are not good at any | :49:57. | :50:03. | |
more is the one you left behind! Where is your Olympic legacy? | :50:03. | :50:09. | |
old Phillips Idowu. Injury got the better of him in the end. The | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
trouble jump final is tomorrow evening. We also had at Sally | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
Pearson yesterday evening, your favourite, Colin. And electric | :50:17. | :50:23. | |
event. Far closer than people would have anticipated. The defending | :50:23. | :50:27. | |
champion, Dawn Harper, third from the right of our screen, made a | :50:27. | :50:32. | |
courageous upsurge at the end and set a new personal best. But Sally | :50:32. | :50:38. | |
Pearson just had enough to take this title. She was so anxious at | :50:38. | :50:42. | |
the end. We knew she had won, but she was elated when the result came | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
through. The Dawn Harper found some form almost from nowhere, didn't | :50:46. | :50:53. | |
she? In the last 20 metres. But it was great for Sally. She has been | :50:53. | :50:57. | |
world champion, Commonwealth champion, she comes here, loses a | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
race just before the Games, and then wins. She has been based in | :51:01. | :51:06. | |
London and the weather has been off all summer. It was awful yesterday. | :51:06. | :51:10. | |
I am certain that has given her an advantage. She's used to being cold | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
and wet. Real sport, when you see the green and gold Australia, | :51:16. | :51:21. | |
crossing the finishing line, you know it is real sport. They have | :51:21. | :51:24. | |
not done very well here. There are a lot of queries going on in | :51:24. | :51:34. | |
:51:34. | :51:36. | ||
Australia. But at least Sally got her gold. They were hideous | :51:36. | :51:41. | |
conditions. It was not the best, but she is so good at the hurdles. | :51:41. | :51:46. | |
I know I keep going on about how perfect this young lady is, but | :51:46. | :51:51. | |
over the barriers, she is perfection. For the men's 1500m, | :51:51. | :51:55. | |
Seb Coe was in the stadium with Roger Bannister. It was a strange | :51:55. | :52:02. | |
race. To be fair, seven years ago, we were awarded the games. The | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
first disappointment for me was that in seven years, we have not | :52:05. | :52:13. | |
been able to get a British athlete ready to run in the final. Then we | :52:13. | :52:17. | |
saw the Olympic champion labouring at the back. He did not run at all | :52:17. | :52:23. | |
well. It was a strange race. This was the race that first got me | :52:23. | :52:32. | |
excited about athletics. All the greats, the greatest Olympian of | :52:32. | :52:38. | |
all time won the 1500m. I don't think this man's name goes into | :52:38. | :52:43. | |
that record book. It was a strange race, with a controversial winner. | :52:43. | :52:49. | |
It left me feeling a bit cold. The 1500m used to be the blue riband | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
event. The last one was ruined when the Russian won it and was then | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
disqualified. This was disappointing and that it was not a | :52:57. | :53:02. | |
great race. It was a strange performance all round. He is a | :53:02. | :53:08. | |
controversial winner, and for me a bit of the Olympic flame went out. | :53:09. | :53:18. | |
:53:19. | :53:19. | ||
Just a word about the other athlete who got an injury. As so many of | :53:20. | :53:25. | |
our athletes have done. He is a great sprinter. We saw him in the | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
diamond lead in Monaco. He looked so majestic and we were all rubbing | :53:28. | :53:34. | |
our hands together, thinking, he will defend a title. He is a very | :53:34. | :53:41. | |
good fast runner. He is really strong and can deliver us up 3.30. | :53:41. | :53:49. | |
He is not a great racer. He has come into the championships. Last | :53:49. | :53:57. | |
night, I hope it was an injury. must be able to win. But he | :53:57. | :54:01. | |
finished second in that race. Enough of last night. Now we look | :54:01. | :54:07. | |
forward to today. It is the 5000m, Mo Farah on track. 80,000 people | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
will be excited to see him, because he won the 10,000m and brings the | :54:12. | :54:22. | |
:54:22. | :54:25. | ||
confidence of being an Olympic is winding up, but this is not the | :54:25. | :54:30. | |
sprint yet. It has not started. We have been waiting for this. When is | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
it going to break? Who will go first? De it has not started. There | :54:35. | :54:40. | |
are too many in this group for comfort. It is now about | :54:40. | :54:46. | |
positioning yourself for a move, for a last-lap effort. Mo Farah is | :54:46. | :54:53. | |
in contention. Kenenisa Bekele is not in a great place. He needs to | :54:53. | :54:58. | |
position himself better if he is to defend his title. He quickly moves | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
up on to the outside. Now we have got a raised arm. It will come down | :55:02. | :55:08. | |
to a last-lap sprint. There goes Mo Farah. That is his first serious | :55:08. | :55:16. | |
move. There has been a response from Kenenisa Bekele. Mo Farah hits | :55:16. | :55:21. | |
the front! A lap to go. The bell rings. Is it dolling for a gold | :55:22. | :55:28. | |
medal for Great Britain? Mo Farah are trying to become the first | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
Briton to win the Olympic title of 10,000m. He has a bit of company, | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
including his training partner. Can he hang on? He is running | :55:38. | :55:48. | |
magnificently. A 500m lead, -- a five-metre lead, but that is all. | :55:48. | :55:55. | |
Mo Farah is kicking hard! The crowd are lifting him! They are cheering | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
him on. Into the home straight, just 100m to go. Has he got enough? | :56:01. | :56:10. | |
He is kicking again! It is going to be a glorious, glorious win! Mo | :56:10. | :56:20. | |
:56:20. | :56:36. | ||
Farah for Great Britain! It is What a night. The emotion comes | :56:36. | :56:44. | |
pouring out. Galen Rupp and Mo Farah took on the Africans, showed | :56:44. | :56:54. | |
:56:54. | :56:58. | ||
them how to do it. Unbelievable. Victorious, happy, glorious. In all | :56:58. | :57:05. | |
of this excitement, hang on, Tangier. Can't believe it. Brendan, | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
you and I have sat and waited for many years, you more than me. All | :57:09. | :57:16. | |
of us have waited for a British distance gold. I have said it I | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
will say it again. Gold medal at the Olympic Games. And the weight | :57:20. | :57:30. | |
:57:30. | :57:40. | ||
night. Well, I don't know about you, but what a night to be British. | :57:40. | :57:50. | |
:57:50. | :57:53. | ||
Heart pounding. Great since. Lovely That was the end of a 45 minutes | :57:53. | :57:55. | |
sequins which saw Jess Ennis and Greg Rutherford winning a gold | :57:55. | :57:59. | |
medal, and then Mo Farah. Watching that again, you get right back into | :57:59. | :58:08. | |
the moment, thinking, is he going to win?! It was the greatest hour | :58:08. | :58:14. | |
in the history of British athletics. We had waited a long time. We have | :58:14. | :58:20. | |
had people who have made efforts and got medals, and been amongst it, | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
but distance running has got bigger and bigger. There are people around | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
the country who run 10,000m races who know what Mo Farah went through | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
her because they have been through it themselves. I did not think we | :58:33. | :58:36. | |
could win a few years ago, because the Africans had taken over. Then | :58:36. | :58:44. | |
Mo Farah comes here as a young man from Somalia, learns the system. | :58:44. | :58:52. | |
And now, the ball is beginning to roll. Mo Farah was on the top of | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
that pile. There were 80,000 it we in the stadium who will all be able | :58:56. | :58:59. | |
to say, I was there in the greatest hour of athletics that has ever | :59:00. | :59:03. | |
been having this country. The previous one was the Roger | :59:03. | :59:07. | |
Bannister four-minute mile. And there weren't even thousands of | :59:07. | :59:11. | |
people there to see it. There will be millions who were here that | :59:11. | :59:17. | |
night. And he just seemed to control that race. He never looked | :59:17. | :59:23. | |
in any great bother. The great news is, it was not a fast race. I think | :59:23. | :59:30. | |
he is physically capable of 26.30. He ran it in 27. That too. I have | :59:30. | :59:35. | |
spoken to his physiologist. He said his recovery has been remarkable, | :59:35. | :59:39. | |
because he did not fully extend himself. He ran a steady race and | :59:39. | :59:45. | |
then a fast two laps. That means his recovery for the 5000m is in | :59:45. | :59:51. | |
hand and he has more chance than in the 10,000m, because then he took | :59:51. | :59:56. | |
on the great Kenenisa Bekele. He was not at his best. But Mo Farah | :59:56. | :00:02. | |
it is coming in. He is not drained. He will enjoy this morning's run. | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
The ball is rolling. He has got the confidence and the physiology to do | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
it. We know he can sprint. I am getting excited already. We say he | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
has a better chance in the 5000m. But he does not figure in the world | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
rankings. It is not about that. Distance racing is about the race | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
on the day. You can go to Diamond League races until you are blue in | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
the face. You can't judge Mo Farah against a race he was not in. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Athletes are running flat out in the shorter races. Distance racing, | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
it depends on the pace. Mo Farah has not lost a race and has not | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
been in a race, so the Times are irrelevant. This is not like a | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
Diamond League. There will not be a pacemaker. There may be some | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
teamwork. I think Mo Farah has a Will we have also got Sophie | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Hitchon qualifying in how much, and Steve Lewis in the ball vote. -- | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
:01:19. | :01:21. | ||
Paul pole vault. He came into this championship with a brand new | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
British record, so things are looking very good for him. He loved | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
rubbing shoulders with the top guys, learning from them, and he has | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
adopted everything he has learnt on this journey as a young man, and of | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
:01:46. | :01:47. | ||
course, a season's best. The for pole vault is a tricky event. Here | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
:01:57. | :01:59. | ||
is Colin Jackson's guide to the This is a seriously tough event. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
For a start, the poll that the athletes career is over double | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
their body length. They can get them even at five metres long. | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
Modern technology means that the breasting weight of the pole vault | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
is around three kilos, which is pretty light, but when the athletes | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
pick it up and run with it, the effective force on the body raises | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
it to 20 kilos, the average maximum weight of airline hold baggage. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Holding that while running, seriously disadvantage is the | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
athlete. It means they are effectively running without the use | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
of their arms and it means that the body's stance is more upright than | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
a normal running position. That means it is really hard to get | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
exhilaration and momentum. Competitors have to get the pole | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
vault down into an area the size of an 83 piece of paper, a very small | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
target to aim for. But once they get into the air, the amount of | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
leverage the athletes get supersedes any other job. Women go | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
around five metres high, easily clearing the height of a double- | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
decker bus, whilst the men go even higher, up to around six metres, | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
:03:24. | :03:35. | ||
Colin Jackson, PhD. Once I have finished my commentary this morning, | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
I think I will go down to the warm- up track and have a little practice | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
with it! Just you said, when you run with a pole vault, it makes it | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
hard does. But it does! Stephen Lewis coming up. Steve Hooker is | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
next to him, the Olympic champions. He has had a crisis of confidence. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
He has really suffered for a long time. He got injured and came back. | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
Steve Hooker had a lot of drama. All of a sudden, his confidence | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
completely went. I can't quite understand when you have won so | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
much, and he has gone over six metres, so he is a quality athlete, | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
but sometimes, as we know, click of the fingers and things can just | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
changed and he has suffered. automatic qualifying is five metres | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
and 78, very close to Stephen Lewis's personal best. Let's hear | :04:31. | :04:41. | |
:04:41. | :04:43. | ||
It has been a good season. I have been jumping up really well. I have | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
:04:53. | :04:53. | ||
to keep believing. I know how my run has developed and the technique | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
I amusing, I am really focused and paying attention to all of the | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
:05:07. | :05:08. | ||
details. A bunch of the best guys in the world are there. It is | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
getting a bit close now to my home Olympics! I had a really good | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
experience in Beijing. It was my first Olympics, I was lost in the | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
hall Olympic spirit, but this time I have a lot more experience. I | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
unfocused on making sure I get the most out of it -- I am focused. I | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
am sure I will look back on it well. You can't deny that in a stadium | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
that bake in a home crowd, there will be so much good energy and for | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
me it will be taking that in and hopefully Adie on it that extra | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
energy to my performance, -- adding on that extra energy. If the crowd | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
can help me do better jobs along the runway, it will work for me. -- | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
better jumps. A big moment for Stephen Lewis. Five metres, 70. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
That will be tough for him. Hopefully the crowd will lift him | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
to greater heights. I am delighted to say that Denise Lewis is | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
alongside. I feel like sunshine on a cloudy day, you are looking | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
stunning. There you are! You must be excited about the decathlon. | :06:27. | :06:37. | |
:06:37. | :06:37. | ||
I can't wait. Ashton Eaton. He is the supreme athlete. He is head and | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
shoulders above everybody else in the decathlon, and he set the world | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
record at the trials, breaking the 11 year it decathlon records. Many | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
people at home it may not know him but they will by the end of these | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
championships. He struggles a little bit but he is a natural run | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
and jump, and when people see him, he is absolutely electric. In the | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
US championships heat jumped 8.23 and is 100m time was fractionally | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
quicker than Dwain Chambers ran at our UK trials. The one event that | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
is his weakness is the shot but, where he do struggle a little bit. | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
-- shot put. We also have Lynsey shot in the 800m heats. Slightly | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
controversial! -- Lynsey Sharp. You questioned whether she should be | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
here. It is not that I did not think she should be here. She won | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
the trials and then she went on to get a medal in the European | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
Championships in Helsinki. She ran well and she does deserve to be hit, | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
but the three girls that have run quicker than her, it was a shame to | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
see them at home. This morning when we were watching those 800m round, | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
there is only one British woman. will head to the commentary team, | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
:08:18. | :08:22. | ||
Brendan Foster, Steve Cram and Paul decathlon, 100m. The first of 10 | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
events over two days to decide the best all-round male athlete in the | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
:08:36. | :08:55. | ||
number three, and Great Britain's Daniel Awde goes in Abiodun | :08:55. | :09:05. | |
:09:05. | :09:20. | ||
and not his best event. The man from Kazakhstani won the bronze | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
medal last time but since then he has not really achieve what | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
everybody thought he could achieve its. Everybody thought he could | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
really do some damage in the decathlon but it has not really | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
worked out that way for the Kazakhstani record holder. Kevin | :09:38. | :09:48. | |
:09:48. | :10:01. | ||
field in paper, a new lifetime best this year of 10.98. All of the | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
times converted into points, of course. The wind is very steady in | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
:10:17. | :10:27. | ||
the stadium this morning. It is breaks the tape with a new season's | :10:27. | :10:37. | |
:10:37. | :10:39. | ||
best. 10.91. He is obviously in shape. That will give him 881 | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
:10:49. | :10:57. | ||
points, so a good start for the holder. Karpov Now, generating a | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
:11:07. | :11:08. | ||
little bit more speed. As you were saying, it is much warmer than it | :11:08. | :11:16. | |
has been on a few of the mornings. Yesterday may have been the coldest | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
morning. No wind at all, in fact, a very slight headwind. That will not | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
slow down Karpov. A big, big man. Not the best out of the blocks. | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
Olympic bronze medallist in Athens eight years ago. That is his best | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
score from that year. 8700 points then. A bit of that these days, but | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
that is a good start to his Olympic campaign in London. 31 years old | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
now. He is the Asian record holder and twice world championship bronze | :11:54. | :12:04. | |
:12:04. | :12:24. | ||
medallist. A good start to his two just started. Trying to go over 73 | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
metres. For automatic entry into the final. Sophie Hitchon, the | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
British record holder, is yet to take her first round throw. That is | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
a big, big start. The Olympic record is 75.02. That was in | :12:46. | :12:56. | |
:12:56. | :13:05. | ||
qualified her for the final. She can go back to the village and | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
:13:15. | :13:17. | ||
relax. What a start. A new Olympic record for the Polish athlete. | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
:13:27. | :13:34. | ||
one former world record holder to another. Lysenko, and that is good | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
as well. 73 meat is required, a first-time up, mission accomplished | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
:13:51. | :13:52. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 49 seconds | :13:52. | :14:41. | |
Twice world champion. Technically, I think she is one of the best | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
around. She sits very low, she is not a tall lady at all. She says | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
she will retire after this year. Not the best delivery in the world. | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
She goes dancing around in a circle afterwards! That is another athlete | :15:01. | :15:11. | |
:15:11. | :15:11. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 49 seconds | :15:11. | :16:28. | |
Karpov winning in the first heat, if you missed that. | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
:16:38. | :16:48. | ||
Artikov from Uzbekistan. Yet to break 8000 points. And Sebrle, so | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
:16:58. | :17:04. | ||
many times over that mark. This is Suarez. Took the bronze medal three | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
:17:14. | :17:27. | ||
years ago. From Liberia. Ushiro, from Japan. The Japanese record | :17:27. | :17:37. | |
:17:37. | :17:51. | ||
holder. Sebrle, has he still got the pace? | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
:18:01. | :18:03. | ||
The sun is out. Always worth checking weather forecast! It is an | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
:18:13. | :18:47. | ||
0 -- a long day in the Olympic medals in this decathlon. He is | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
:18:57. | :18:57. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 49 seconds | :18:57. | :19:47. | |
next to Sebrle, one of the all-time for him at all. He's certainly got | :19:47. | :19:57. | |
:19:57. | :20:02. | ||
left in the blocks. Addy coming through and scoring very well. | :20:03. | :20:12. | |
:20:13. | :20:17. | ||
Just faster than Karpov in the first heat. That will give us some | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
:20:27. | :20:29. | ||
indication of the sort of shape the former world record holder is in. | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
Suarez running a season's best. But he will be a little bit | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
:20:45. | :20:47. | ||
disappointed with that. Sophie Hitchon, the British record holder. | :20:47. | :20:57. | |
:20:57. | :20:57. | ||
Just over at the 65 metres mark. We have son died - seen some great | :20:57. | :21:06. | |
throws this morning. Technically looking pretty good. She is a | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
former ballet dancer and attributes part of her technique, the balance | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
and everything else, to her ability in dance. She has got off to an | :21:18. | :21:27. | |
average start there. Lying in eighth place at the moment. Two | :21:27. | :21:37. | |
:21:37. | :21:41. | ||
throws to go. The result of the second heat in the decathlon. | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
:21:51. | :22:14. | ||
Erins second. Suarez, a season's just started. And a former American | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
:22:24. | :22:26. | ||
great under a bit of pressure here. Looks very slow. Derek Miles did | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
not really get started in this competition at all. Big | :22:31. | :22:41. | |
:22:41. | :22:43. | ||
disappointment for the American. Certainly good conditions in the | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
stadium this morning. But five metres 20 is a lowly height for | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
this American to have gone out on. Steve Lewis yet to take his first | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
:23:02. | :23:07. | ||
jump. Betty Heidler, German world record | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
:23:17. | :23:26. | ||
holder. Just shy of the qualifying line of 73 metres. | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
Amazingly, she did not qualified for the final of the European | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
Championships in Helsinki a few weeks ago. She said afterwards that | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
:23:46. | :23:55. | ||
technically it was not right at all. Wry smile from the German. Will do | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
not blink during this next heat, you might miss this man. Ashton | :24:00. | :24:10. | |
:24:10. | :24:10. | ||
Eaton, the fastest man ever in a decathlon 100m. You think of all | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
the great athletes have gone before, the likes of Dell Thompson will | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
:24:28. | :24:55. | ||
stop that record may go this expects to run away from everybody, | :24:55. | :25:05. | |
:25:05. | :25:31. | ||
10.66. Trey Hardy trying to make amends for a disappointing games | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
:25:41. | :25:56. | ||
number of promising young Germans this year. And one of the best | :25:56. | :26:06. | |
:26:06. | :26:13. | ||
Commonwealth athletes next, and Damien Warner. He is the Canadian. | :26:13. | :26:23. | |
:26:23. | :26:26. | ||
Ashton Eaton is a class apart. The American just 24 years old. | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
He will get faster and stronger as the years roll on, provided he | :26:32. | :26:41. | |
stays clear of injury. But at the moment he is on the top of his game. | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
The decathlon world will be watching this very closely and will | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
:26:55. | :27:10. | ||
be staggered at his performances, His team mate also going well. And | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
Damian Walker, the Canadian. Not the fireworks were expected at the | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
beginning. But that is the fastest ever in an Olympic arena for the | :27:21. | :27:30. | |
decathlon. And it looked very easy indeed. Big total of points. 1011 | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
points. Huge. It is a very good start. He got out | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
of the blocks well. Just looked a little bit tight to me. I thought | :27:43. | :27:52. | |
he was going to get a little more pace. His head is going back. Just | :27:52. | :28:02. | |
:28:02. | :28:05. | ||
watch him here. Pretty good out of the blocks. Driving through. Trey | :28:05. | :28:15. | |
:28:15. | :28:18. | ||
Hardee also going well. He really was reaching for it. | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
A little bit of his world record. But the main thing for him | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
undoubtedly is to win this Olympic title. He will want to do it in the | :28:29. | :28:39. | |
:28:39. | :28:40. | ||
best possible style he can. And that is a solid start. | :28:40. | :28:47. | |
Just to confirm his time, 10.35, the fastest ever in an Olympic | :28:47. | :28:55. | |
Games. And Damien Warner running Games. And Damien Warner running | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
one of his best races ever. A good start from the world record | :28:59. | :29:09. | |
:29:09. | :29:19. | ||
holder as he tries to add the He comes with a big reputation. He | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
follows some great and iconic decathlete so. He got out really | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
well, Ashton Eaton, that he seems to get a little bit tight. | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
Heptathlete and decathlete are looking to get as close to possible | :29:32. | :29:39. | |
to their personal best and he was not too soft. He has never won a | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
major outdoor titles. He is very young, remember. Everybody would | :29:44. | :29:50. | |
say, you need to gain a lot of experience. People saw this guy, | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
and natural athlete, beautiful, and now it is time that he holds it all | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
together. He got a world record at the US Championships, but he has to | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
deliver now at the Olympic Games, and people in this competition have | :30:06. | :30:13. | |
won big championships and will be chasing him happily. If it will be | :30:13. | :30:22. | |
interesting to see Daniel Ward in the next heat. -- Daniel ought. | :30:22. | :30:28. | |
He is young. It will be difficult, we need a realistic expectation, | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
but hopefully he can really enjoy this competition and get a personal | :30:32. | :30:42. | |
:30:42. | :30:49. | ||
best. Let's hear his thoughts ahead I am so looking forward to that | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
moment when you step out in front of the crowd. My family, they don't | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
know how they have stuck with me. I have been through some real low | :31:00. | :31:07. | |
points. My mum especially, she has been there. My brother has been a | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
diamond. Family friends. Everybody has been so supportive. I want to | :31:12. | :31:18. | |
pay them back and reward them for all they have given me. Top 10, I | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
will be happy with. Top eight is what I am aiming for. I will give | :31:23. | :31:33. | |
it my all. He will be looking for over 8,000, that will be there for | :31:33. | :31:38. | |
us target. Absolutely. I think he will be disappointed if he does not | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
get over his personal best. The crowd is suing everybody on and he | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
can maximises opportunities -- cheering everybody on. The Daniels | :31:49. | :31:56. | |
in -- Daniel is in the next heat false dock he would be looking | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
forward to the moment he gets introduced to this capacity crowd | :32:00. | :32:10. | |
:32:10. | :32:35. | ||
way it works in the decathlon and you wonder why the gold medal | :32:35. | :32:42. | |
favourite was not in this, the events are seeded according to your | :32:42. | :32:46. | |
season's best times, and so these are the quickest men in this | :32:46. | :32:56. | |
:32:56. | :32:57. | ||
particular event. All of these men are pretty good sprinters. Daniel | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
Awde, we will see him in a second, is a very good sprinter. He gets | :33:02. | :33:10. | |
big points in the 400m, not bad at the 100m either. The Russian | :33:10. | :33:19. | |
champion. He is a young man on the upward trend as well, just 21 years | :33:19. | :33:29. | |
:33:29. | :33:49. | ||
blood coursing through the veins. Let's see if he can build on that. | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
Daniel's lifetime best is 10.85. He has done very close to that this | :33:54. | :34:01. | |
year, 10.87. Nice and warm, hardly a breath of wind. It keeps moving | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
around a little bit. They might just have it on their tails this | :34:05. | :34:15. | |
:34:15. | :34:15. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 49 seconds | :34:15. | :35:00. | |
personal best. That was into a headwind as wealth -- as well. What | :35:00. | :35:06. | |
a start for the young man. If that is an official time, that will be | :35:06. | :35:14. | |
worth 926 points. A cracking effort. I think you really worked from the | :35:14. | :35:18. | |
crowd there. That introduction, you could see what it meant to him. He | :35:18. | :35:28. | |
:35:28. | :35:29. | ||
was fired up and ready to go. 10.71, a new personal best. Great start! | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
30 points more than Daniel has ever scored before and that is just what | :35:33. | :35:40. | |
you want at the beginning of your very first Olympic experience. The | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
crowd inspiring him. He kept his form, a little bit tight in the | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
shoulders but you have just done a lifetime best, well done. I liked | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
his form at the start, he stayed low and did not come up too soon. | :35:55. | :36:05. | |
:36:05. | :36:07. | ||
The young Russian next to him was going well, too. Garcia's run, a | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
very tall and powerful Cuban... By Daniel Ward had them all in the end. | :36:12. | :36:22. | |
:36:22. | :36:25. | ||
A good race. -- Awde. Cracking start. He looked good. I like | :36:25. | :36:31. | |
seeing athletes to respond to the occasion, bring your best game. | :36:31. | :36:37. | |
That will stand him in such good stead. More to come, I am sure. A | :36:37. | :36:43. | |
series of personal bests for him. That is what he will be looking for. | :36:43. | :36:53. | |
:36:53. | :37:25. | ||
position for the Cuban. Oh my God! Dear me! That is certainly one of | :37:25. | :37:31. | |
the hazards of pole-vaulting, no fault of the pole vault or the | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
athlete, but they do have a lifespan. Right in the middle. He | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
is a very lucky young man. It broke in two places as well. That woke | :37:43. | :37:53. | |
:37:53. | :38:10. | ||
is OK, thank goodness. That was a very interesting first event in the | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
decathlon. No surprises that Ashton Eaton ran the fastest time ever in | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
the Olympic arena. Just a few points ahead of his team-mate and | :38:20. | :38:30. | |
:38:30. | :38:37. | ||
world champion, Trey Hardee. Damian What a response to the crowd, let's | :38:37. | :38:44. | |
listen to it. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE He is loving | :38:44. | :38:50. | |
that, isn't here. It is brilliant. Steve Cram says he | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
loves to see an athlete be in that situation and wry as to the | :38:53. | :38:59. | |
occasion. It does not get greater than this. -- and rise to the | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
occasion. It really pumped him up and he delivered a personal best in | :39:04. | :39:12. | |
the 100m, which is a great start for him. For some athletes, | :39:12. | :39:17. | |
probably for Holly Bleasdale in the pole vault, that proved just a bit | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
too much. Different athletes respond in different ways. For | :39:23. | :39:28. | |
example, the music that they play it will be very irritating for me, | :39:28. | :39:34. | |
but it has not bothered any of the athletes in the spring so far. | :39:34. | :39:41. | |
Would someone like Daniel, there is no expectation -- or with someone. | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
He is here to do his best and deliver. He is relaxed. It was very | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
different for Holly Bleasdale, where there was some expectation. | :39:51. | :39:58. | |
We thought she could get a medal. Maybe she felt a bit under pressure. | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
Another big cheer. The Olympic 10,000m champion is out. We would | :40:03. | :40:12. | |
see him very shortly. First back to the studio. Another very busy | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
morning in the stadium. We just want to remind you of what else is | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
happening in terms of the coverage from the Olympics. Live on BBC | :40:21. | :40:31. | |
:40:31. | :40:36. | ||
Three, it will be the women's car yet final. -- car yakking final. | :40:36. | :40:45. | |
Kayaking. Two gold medals will be awarded at the Excel and centre in | :40:45. | :40:55. | |
:40:55. | :41:11. | ||
Mo Farah is inside the stadium right now, gearing up for the heat | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
in his 5,000m race. BECTU Jonathan. -- back to Jonathan. It must be | :41:21. | :41:28. | |
great for Mo Farah. To be back on the track. I don't know, he is | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
coming to these championships with clear objectives. He has delivered | :41:32. | :41:39. | |
on one of them. I am sure he is expecting a gold medal. I'm think | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
he thinks he can do it. It is businesslike now, I think he will | :41:44. | :41:54. | |
:41:54. | :41:55. | ||
have put the 10,000m behind him. is qualification today, Mo does not | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
want to stress himself out too much, he just needs to qualify. Steve | :42:00. | :42:07. | |
Cram thought he had a better chance of the 10,000m. I will leave it to | :42:07. | :42:12. | |
you to describe the action. What we meant was he had a great chance in | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
both, he has already delivered in one. Delivering in the second can | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
sometimes become a little bit easier, because you can run with a | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
bit of freedom and the knowledge that you already an Olympic | :42:25. | :42:32. | |
champion. This is an event in which we all know Mo Farah has more than | :42:32. | :42:42. | |
:42:42. | :43:14. | ||
five fastest from this heat will incidentally. If you have been | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
following what has been happening, Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele | :43:19. | :43:26. | |
were named as reserves in the 5,000m. Tirunesh Dibaba won a gold | :43:26. | :43:33. | |
in the 10,000m. She is now in the five. Kenenisa Bekele did not do | :43:33. | :43:39. | |
very well in the 10,000m, and he has gone home! I think the | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
Ethiopians have got three very good athletes for the Brit to contend | :43:44. | :43:52. | |
with. This is a historic moment, Steve. We have never, ever seen a | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
British distance runner, an Olympic gold medallist, start a race. | :43:57. | :44:07. | |
:44:07. | :44:09. | ||
energy levels occasionally get high, and the first thing I thought was, | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
I cannot wait to hear Mo Farah introduced to the crowd this | :44:13. | :44:19. | |
morning. Seriously? As Olympic champion. Mo Farah, Olympic | :44:19. | :44:24. | |
champion. Fantastic. Let's keep saying that. We may be saying it | :44:24. | :44:34. | |
:44:34. | :45:00. | ||
again. He could change his name by one of the Ethiopian EST. The | :45:00. | :45:10. | |
:45:10. | :45:20. | ||
second fastest 5,000m runner in the They want Mo Farah to win this race. | :45:20. | :45:29. | |
This is another Olympic medallist from Kenya. Mo Farah does not want | :45:29. | :45:34. | |
to win this race, he wants to be in the top five. He just needs to | :45:34. | :45:44. | |
:45:44. | :45:47. | ||
qualify here. Isiah Koech another one to watch. | :45:47. | :45:57. | |
:45:57. | :46:15. | ||
are just two heats. So the guys in the second heat always have a | :46:15. | :46:21. | |
slight advantage, knowing how fast the first one goes. And the good | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
athletes in the bunch, and cannot see any of them wanting to push it | :46:25. | :46:32. | |
on. There are all capable of running a good last 600. That is | :46:32. | :46:40. | |
all but it will be required. Some experienced athletes in their who | :46:40. | :46:45. | |
will look around this field and think, OK, I still think I can | :46:45. | :46:51. | |
finish in the top five. It is then went you get into the next kind of | :46:51. | :46:57. | |
phalanx of athletes who perhaps are not used to this kind of race. A | :46:57. | :47:06. | |
lot of these athletes, they get the big times but it is different when | :47:06. | :47:15. | |
you come and you run in the heat. Absolutely right. It is hard to run | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
in it and he'd because every step that you run is a step that you do | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
not want to run. You do not want to be tired, you want to keep it for | :47:25. | :47:34. | |
the final. I really would love Mo Farah just to hit the front just | :47:34. | :47:39. | |
for a little bit. He has to be a bit of a show man when he was a | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
young man. Then he settles down and started to take his athletics | :47:44. | :47:50. | |
seriously. But I would just like him to beat in the front for a time | :47:50. | :47:56. | |
to hear the roar of the crowd. I remember when he was in the world | :47:56. | :48:03. | |
cross country team and they all turned up with their hair dyed! I'm | :48:04. | :48:10. | |
certain that Mo Farah up was the one who had instigated that. | :48:10. | :48:15. | |
That was funny because he was expected to run really well in that | :48:15. | :48:22. | |
junior cross-country but he did not run well at all. Two of them came | :48:22. | :48:25. | |
and knocked on the door of the commentary box. I opened the door | :48:25. | :48:30. | |
and Mo Farah said, I am Mo Farah, can you interviewed me for the | :48:30. | :48:36. | |
television? I said, when you run better than that, I will introduce | :48:36. | :48:43. | |
you! He has always been a character. There are quite a few stories about | :48:43. | :48:50. | |
his younger days, some of them have not been made public! He is | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
entertaining in a different way now. He's still a great character and | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
much loved within the British team. Is that the one about him jumping | :49:00. | :49:10. | |
:49:10. | :49:12. | ||
off the bridge into the River?! No he jumped off the bridge | :49:12. | :49:22. | |
:49:22. | :49:44. | ||
laps, as expected. The first 1,000m was fairly slow. Lopez Lomong is | :49:44. | :49:49. | |
just beside Mo Farah, from the United States. A little bit like Mo | :49:49. | :49:59. | |
:49:59. | :50:00. | ||
Farah, he was a refugee from Sudan. He has been held up as a bit of a | :50:00. | :50:05. | |
standard bearer for American athletics. He has now moved up to | :50:05. | :50:15. | |
:50:15. | :50:39. | ||
the 500m -- 5,000m and has done these Olympic Games. Galen Rupp | :50:39. | :50:46. | |
already with a silver medal. He is of course going in the 5,000m as | :50:46. | :50:56. | |
:50:56. | :51:00. | ||
well. Fairly steady running here now. Mo | :51:00. | :51:06. | |
Farah enjoyed the crowd, the reception, but with eight laps to | :51:06. | :51:11. | |
go he gets down to business. And I'm so impressed with the set-up he | :51:11. | :51:20. | |
has got around him, her really big team of supporters. The British | :51:20. | :51:30. | |
:51:30. | :51:41. | ||
endurance squad, he is part of that when he comes over here. When he | :51:41. | :51:45. | |
finished the race he took a recovery drink and then he got a | :51:45. | :51:55. | |
:51:55. | :51:58. | ||
massage and then he goes into an ice bath. He stays in there for a | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
couple of minutes and that helps with the muscle recovery. So that | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
recovery system, I spoke to his physiologist the other day and he | :52:07. | :52:13. | |
said that he had recovered brilliantly. That is because he ran | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
it at a pace when he was very comfortable in the first part of | :52:18. | :52:25. | |
his race. A huge roar for the British record | :52:25. | :52:34. | |
holder, Sophie Hitchon. She is down in 15th place, such is | :52:34. | :52:43. | |
the quality in this competition. She likes it! That could be a new | :52:43. | :52:53. | |
:52:53. | :52:55. | ||
British record. What a performance by Sophie Hitchon! Her coach and | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
mentor... That is a really good response to that final round the | :53:00. | :53:08. | |
throat which could have seen her totally eliminated. Can she make it | :53:08. | :53:18. | |
:53:18. | :53:19. | ||
through and? 71 metres and 98. That is the new British record. | :53:19. | :53:27. | |
When you have 80,000 people cheering for you, the actor and an | :53:27. | :53:37. | |
:53:37. | :54:03. | ||
-- the Jhelum and it must be front, getting a bit of a cheer. | :54:03. | :54:09. | |
He is a target now, look at the way they are running! That is what | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
comes of being the Olympic champion, when you make a move, the whole | :54:13. | :54:23. | |
:54:23. | :54:28. | ||
field follows you. Five laps to go. The crowd are starting to respond | :54:28. | :54:38. | |
:54:38. | :54:46. | ||
to this. Just got clipped from behind, that is what we do not want. | :54:46. | :54:53. | |
Isiah Koech thinking enough is enough. For the first time now this | :54:53. | :54:59. | |
Darge running at a pace that the good athletes would be used to. -- | :54:59. | :55:09. | |
:55:09. | :55:27. | ||
they start running. Shugi on Mo Farah's shoulder. The | :55:27. | :55:32. | |
field is starting to gather. The athletes have got targets to | :55:32. | :55:42. | |
:55:42. | :55:44. | ||
qualify. Mo Farah now thinking about getting himself out of that | :55:44. | :55:49. | |
group and getting into a better position. The crowd responding once | :55:49. | :55:59. | |
again. Just brilliant to see a British gold medallist in action. | :55:59. | :56:09. | |
:56:09. | :56:13. | ||
He does not want to win this one, but the crowd want him to win it! | :56:13. | :56:23. | |
:56:23. | :56:28. | ||
Koech on the inside. Three laps to go and Mo Farah doing | :56:28. | :56:34. | |
the right thing. That little trip from behind just reminding him to | :56:34. | :56:40. | |
keep as much space around him as possible. But he is like a magnet | :56:40. | :56:49. | |
now. There is a bit more pushing and shoving. | :56:49. | :56:56. | |
This group is quite large, they need to spread out a little. | :56:56. | :57:06. | |
:57:06. | :57:08. | ||
All the big names here. It is only going to get faster from here. | :57:08. | :57:11. | |
Birmingham from a Australia one of the athletes resort running really | :57:11. | :57:21. | |
:57:21. | :57:30. | ||
well at Crystal Palace. Two laps to go. This is when the | :57:30. | :57:40. | |
:57:40. | :57:44. | ||
race can start. Mo Farah has to time this one properly. | :57:44. | :57:53. | |
The to 18 year-olds controlling this. | :57:53. | :58:03. | |
:58:03. | :58:16. | ||
Lopez Lomong with his good 1500 this year. Moffat looking poised. | :58:17. | :58:25. | |
This is for real, he has to get amongst them now. We know what he | :58:25. | :58:33. | |
can do well over the shorter sprint. There they go. | :58:33. | :58:39. | |
The gap begins to open. Mo Farah in fourth place, in a qualifying | :58:39. | :58:47. | |
position. He needs to make sure he finishes | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
in the first five, that is all he wants to do. | :58:51. | :58:57. | |
They are making him work for this. There are six athletes and only | :58:57. | :59:07. | |
:59:07. | :59:16. | ||
five will definitely qualifies. Koech in second place. Mo Farah | :59:16. | :59:26. | |
:59:26. | :59:27. | ||
just looking around, checking where the danger is. He is OK. | :59:27. | :59:35. | |
Soi in sixth place. That was being wound up and have wound up. Mo | :59:35. | :59:41. | |
Farah had to work hard there. That burst of pace from this man it was | :59:41. | :59:46. | |
something that I'm sure he did not enjoy. He did have to work for it. | :59:46. | :59:52. | |
And even when you are the Olympic champion, and it can still be hard | :59:52. | :59:59. | |
work, particularly when you do not want to do it. That is exactly it, | :59:59. | :00:03. | |
he would love to go straight to the finals. And that is always going to | :00:03. | :00:10. | |
hurt you. Moffat does not want to win this, he wanted to finish in | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
the first five but at this point he had to finish in the first five | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
:00:25. | :00:30. | ||
because there were six athletes in left. Mo will have found that | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
difficult in the last couple of laps, but he has now got the chance | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
to run the race that he doesn't want to run, and that is the final | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
of the men's 5,000m. That is the first time we have ever seen a | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
British distance runner that is a gold medallist lose a race. When | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
are you going to stop? I love sailing it! Olympic champion Mo | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
Farah comes off the track. You will see him again in a couple of days. | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
:01:14. | :01:16. | ||
Go for it, Mo. Brendan, Jonathan was making the point earlier about | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
the 10,005 1,000, I think Mo will have to be absolutely at his best | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
to win this -- the 10,000m and the 5,000m. I think more men can cope | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
with the final kick in this as well. That injection of pace that we saw | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
at the end from Ibrahimov was better than anything I have seen | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
from him before, and when Mo gets to the final, he will want to be | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
controlling it a bit more when he gets to the last 600, rather than | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
After the euphoria, you had to get back to business. Yes, it was | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
pretty difficult. I was pretty tired. That took more from me than | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
I thought, but it is all good. I got a great reception from the | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
crowd. It is nice to get through to the final. You said you kept | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
getting caught. A lot of pushing and shoving. The pace getting up | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
and down. That is what happens in the heats. Hopefully the final will | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
settle down. Last year, having not won the gold, you said you were the | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
hungriest in the field for the 5,000m and then you got the gold. | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
Do you think you will have more of a sense of freedom now? Yes. I will | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
give 110%. It just depends how my legs allow me. It wasn't as easy, I | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
would have liked to have run a lot slower just then, but I will just | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
have to recover. I have a great medical team. Hopefully I will | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
recover. All the very best, Mo. They are due to everybody for your | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
support. Thank you. -- thank you to everybody. That was a difficult | :03:11. | :03:21. | |
:03:21. | :03:30. | ||
morning's work for Mo but safely and the others will have to sit and | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
watch the second semi-final. Earlier, we saw a brilliant | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
performance from Sophie Hitchon, just 21 years old. She screamed it | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
out into the arena. Her coach, Derek Afellay, will be delighted, | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
as was the athlete herself. A brand new British record and a possible | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
What about that? A British record on the biggest day of your life. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
was in great shape when I came in and I knew that. The first one, I | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
clipped the cage a bit, and the next one went better, and I knew it | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
was there but you only have one left and I was like, it is all or | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
nothing! Now I just have to wait and hope I make the final. What is | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
that feeling like when you know you have nailed it? You just know. I | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
knew as soon as I let go of it. It is just being relaxed. As soon as I | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
let it go I was like, yes. I did not know it was quite that far. I | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
knew it was over 70 and that is what I wanted today. And a great | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
chance to make the final. We sought Daniel Awde did it. Mo women. What | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
is it like? -- we saw Daniel Awde do it, and Mo women as well. | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
can't wait to be in the final. I just have to cross my fingers. If I | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
don't make it, I am not bothered. I have thrown my personal best and | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
there is nothing more I can do. was a wonderful performance, you | :05:13. | :05:23. | |
:05:23. | :05:31. | ||
should be proud. Thank you very for more world record holders, and | :05:31. | :05:40. | |
the current world record holder, and the former world champion. She | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
beat a host of great athletes. Only the top 12 will make it through to | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
:05:55. | :06:02. | ||
5,000m. 12 and a half laps. Nick McCormick goes for Great Britain. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
An experienced athlete. He could well have to run faster than he has | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
ever run before, depending on the nature of the race. Galen Rupp, who | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
won the silver medal behind Mo Farah, and Craig Mottram, | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Commonwealth champion from Australia. Gebremeskel is the | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
fastest athlete in the world this year for this. Bernard Lagat as | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
well, of course, a legend. Not just in the United States but around the | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
world of distance running. Well known in Britain. Former world | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
champion in 1,500m and 5,000m, and Olympic bronze medallist. Galen | :06:49. | :06:59. | |
Rupp, training partner, friend and rival of Mo Farah. The two embraced | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
after they beat the might of Africa the other evening. A surprise | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
:07:15. | :07:15. | ||
bronze medallist yesterday in the 1,500m, Iguider. Another Ethiopian | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
in very good shape. Quickly, Brendan, Nick McCormick is among us | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
some very, very strong company. is a very difficult one, this. | :07:26. | :07:35. | |
Seven of these athletes have broken 13 minutes of 5,000m, which means | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
they are faster than Nick McCormick. He has done well this year. He had | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
a couple of years in the wilderness. He has started to be coached again | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
by Lynsey done. He has one the Commonwealth Games and the European | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Championships. This is something he has been dreaming about for a long | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
time, to represent Great Britain in the Olympic Games in London, and I | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
think he has done well to get this far. Let's see how we can respond. | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
Craig Mottram of Australia, interestingly enough, he has | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
decided 13.27 was what the runners did in the first round, so in the | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
:08:26. | :08:27. | ||
second heat, he has set out to give himself a chance to make this quick, | :08:27. | :08:37. | |
:08:37. | :08:37. | ||
deciding to run first serve than the 13.27. -- run faster than. The | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
second heat always know what they have got to beat. They could go | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
through as fast as losers. Craig Mottram is just happy to lead them | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
through a very steady pace. Nick McCormick, trapped on the curve. | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
There are 21 athletes in this race and he is 14th, 15th position. | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
McCormack is going to run this race as though it is a final. -- Nick | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
:09:20. | :09:24. | ||
McCormick. Alistair Cragg is the ahead of him, the Irishman. The | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
pace is being laid down and Craig Mottram is doing the job. This is a | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
more comfortable pace for the athletes, more like the pace they | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
will do in training and in hard races. Remember Craig Mottram in | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
2008, one of the favourites, got knocked out in the heats, and that | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
was because he did not gauge his pace. He isn't making that mistake | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
today. He is giving himself a chance to qualify, doing this | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
absolutely right. If he isn't in the first five, he will be in the | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
position to qualify if he runs faster than 13.27. Mo Farah's | :10:03. | :10:12. | |
training partner, Galen Rupp, in second place. Bernard Lagat is in | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
third place. He has been outstanding over the years and he | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
will be a danger in the final. He is less comfortable in two rounds | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
and he is in one round. He hasn't looked as good to me this year but | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
we will find out if he is ready for the Olympic Games. Craig Mottram is | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
:10:41. | :10:43. | ||
doing a sterling job. 11 seconds faster than the first heat. Nick | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
McCormick is on the edge in terms of running at a pace that may not | :10:48. | :10:58. | |
:10:58. | :11:14. | ||
comfortable at the moment. He is getting a good pace set by Craig | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
Mottram. They are running at 13.10, which is exactly right. Nick | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
McCormick would have to run a personal best. If he runs inside | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
13.20, which he has done before, he could get to the final. We did not | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
have a finalist in the steeplechase and there 1,500m. We have one | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
finalist in the 800m. It would be good to see Nick McCormick get to | :11:45. | :11:55. | |
:11:55. | :12:09. | ||
the final, it would be a great of seasons this year. But he is | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
looking confident and strong. Asking for a bit of help. His Galen | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
Rupp prepared to take it on? He has done his bit and he is giving these | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
athletes a chance, and they know that. They should work together | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
because it is to all of their advantage. 10 of them can get rid | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
of the final if they keep going at this pace. If you do you share and | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
you run steadily, with a lap to go and you know you are qualifying | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
under 13.20, you don't even need to sprint in the last lap and that is | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
a physical advantage, so steady running is much more conducive to | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
recovery. Galen Rupp knows what he's doing. Good, solid running. A | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
64-second place. That is great. These guys can run faster. They | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
should be thanking Craig Mottram and Galen Rupp. I wouldn't be a bit | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
surprised if these athletes had this conversation. Craig Mottram | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
was burned last time in 2008. He had the chance to do something | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
similar in Beijing but he did not have any information, he did not | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
know what time he was supposed to run, but he has made it his | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
business to find that today. He has done that well. He is getting good | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
assistance from Galen Rupp, who is now in -- inviting somebody else to | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
takeover. They should do that, no point running fast and then slowing | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
down. Who will help now? Galen Rupp running out wide. Mo Farah watching | :13:54. | :14:02. | |
his friend. Galen Rupp decides to go back into the lead. Craig | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
Mottram is looking comfortable. Right at the back of that group is | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
Nick McCormick of Great Britain, still looking comfortable. No | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
distress at the moment. This group is full of quality and it does | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
contain Nick McCormick. If you were in this group and aiming for the | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
final, you would say, thanks very much Craig Mottram, thanks very | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
much Galen Rupp. There is no point one in all these laps at a good | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
pace and then slimming-down and jogging so I hope somebody else | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
takes it up -- and then at slowing down. They know how to work hard, | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
these athletes, and they are throwing it away a little. This is | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
a little bit silly. It certainly has slowed down a bit. Nick | :14:52. | :15:02. | |
:15:02. | :15:16. | ||
spoke to Galen up about what they were going to do this morning. -- | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
Rupp. The professionalism of the man that he has developed in the | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
:15:35. | :15:38. | ||
last few years is amazing. Come on Craig, you have to do your | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
:15:48. | :15:48. | ||
bit! That is much quicker than the first | :15:48. | :15:57. | |
heat. Craig Mottram recognising that the pace had perhaps slipped a | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
:16:07. | :16:18. | ||
little bit so he is taking it on All ahead of Nick McCormick at the | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
moment. But it is Craig Mottram still leading, trying to keep the | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
:16:32. | :16:37. | ||
pace going. Craig gave them all the opportunity. | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
They're not seizing that opportunity. And some of them could | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
regret that. They're all queuing up and as soon as they get to the | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
second place they just hold back. Around 17 athletes in this leading | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
:17:05. | :17:19. | ||
group. We have not seen any sign of Bernard Lagat yet. Moses Kipsiro | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
:17:29. | :17:39. | ||
pushing on. Kipsiro in the 10,000m, his shoe came off! He is a very | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
:17:49. | :17:50. | ||
good athlete. It looks as if Nick McCormick is in | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
:18:00. | :18:09. | ||
trouble now. He only has to beat a couple of the athletes ahead of him. | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
The way they are going right now, there could easily be 10 qualifiers | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
from this group. Great Mongeham disappointing the fading away. -- | :18:23. | :18:32. | |
:18:33. | :18:34. | ||
Craig Mottram. Mo Farah watching, studying this | :18:34. | :18:44. | |
:18:44. | :18:57. | ||
well, really struggling there. What information is Mo Farah at | :18:57. | :19:07. | |
:19:07. | :19:08. | ||
gathering from this one? He will be watching Bernard Lagat. He is in | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
:19:18. | :19:28. | ||
that group. Just coasting on the inside. 600 metres remaining. And | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
:19:38. | :19:43. | ||
that is nearly enough. It is beginning to wind up Kipsiro, | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
:19:53. | :20:08. | ||
Rupp there as well. Iguider showing for the first time as well. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Some of them will have been working out the times they need to get | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
:20:22. | :20:25. | ||
through. That is the qualifying group. They know what they're doing. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Finished in the first 10, keep going, and that is you through to | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
:20:38. | :20:41. | ||
the final. At the moment, Galen Rupp does not need to be in the | :20:41. | :20:51. | |
:20:51. | :20:52. | ||
first five. Here comes Bernard Lagat down the inside. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
Where is Nick McCormick? Struggling a little bit. Just about to cross | :20:57. | :21:07. | |
:21:07. | :21:20. | ||
the line. We think he is about 13th. He gave it absolutely everything. | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
:21:30. | :21:30. | ||
Craig Mottram just crossing the line. That wasn't have won it for | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
:21:40. | :21:45. | ||
Mick McCormick. But I thought he ran OK today. Galen Rupp in seventh | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
:21:55. | :22:05. | ||
place. He knew exactly what he had to do. He is alongside Kipsiro. | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
:22:15. | :22:27. | ||
Bernard Lagat coming through, just reminding us he is still very good. | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
Galen Rupp confident that the fastest losers are coming from this | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
:22:39. | :22:46. | ||
heat. There is Nick McCormick. That was an OK run from him. He has been | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
through a tough time and that was a good the Olympic experience for him. | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
Hopefully the rest of his career Hopefully the rest of his career | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
can progress from there. Well Nick McCormick is here. What | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
about the race performance today? am actually really pleased. I did | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
everything I possibly could. I wanted to come here and make sure I | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
gave it everything, no matter what. That is the second fastest time I | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
:23:32. | :23:33. | ||
have ever run for the 5,000m. It is a very different race. But I loved | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
every minute of it. I am just disappointed that I missed out on | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
the final by a couple of spots. But it is just a brilliant occasion, | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
the crowd was fantastic. I have, long way from where I was at two | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
years ago. I could not be here without my coaches. I'm just | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
disappointed not to make the final, I think I could have done that. It | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
was a scrappy race. There was kicking and everything. I just did | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
not have enough today but I gave it absolutely everything and I have | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
got no regrets. In 20 or 30 years I will be thinking I gave it | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
everything. He performed in the Olympic Games at London, you will | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
Olympic Games at London, you will always remember that. | :24:35. | :24:45. | |
:24:45. | :25:01. | ||
Certainly the first five very close Nick McCormick just outside of a | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
qualifying position. Sad news for Nick McCormick and sad | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
news in the decathlon as well. The former champion and former world | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
:25:23. | :25:23. | ||
record holder, Sebrle. Unfortunately he has now pulled out. | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
He has not turned up for the long jump and that is a shame. That | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
could be the end of what was a could be the end of what was a | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
fantastic career. These are the standings after that | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
first event. Ashton Eaton giving a very good indication of what kind | :25:44. | :25:53. | |
of shape he is in. Steve Lewis Nell's it! Very good indeed. Five | :25:53. | :26:03. | |
:26:03. | :26:05. | ||
metres 50. Good stuff from Steve Lewis. He has | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
:26:15. | :26:18. | ||
beaten most of the world's best vaulters at some point in 2012. | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
And excellent entry into this qualifying competition. Ashton | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
:26:34. | :26:47. | ||
Eaton now in the first round. That is very good indeed. Sebrle, | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
we understand, did warm up for the long jump. What a great champion he | :26:55. | :27:03. | |
has been. Ashton Eaton in control. Good effort by the American. Daniel | :27:03. | :27:13. | |
:27:13. | :27:14. | ||
Auld still pumped up from that superb run earlier. A huge roar | :27:14. | :27:24. | |
:27:24. | :27:24. | ||
from the crowd. That looks long. It is a red flag. Daniel has got a | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
couple more attempts. The adrenalin probably still running through him | :27:32. | :27:42. | |
:27:42. | :27:54. | ||
from the race. Steve Lewis this morning in the | :27:54. | :28:02. | |
pole vault qualifying. He will be relieved. He can hope leek go on | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
now and get into the final. Daniel Auld I think getting a little bit | :28:07. | :28:17. | |
:28:17. | :28:17. | ||
Auld I think getting a little bit carried away. A word on Sebrle. He | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
is one of the legends. He has been a great ambassador for the Czech | :28:22. | :28:32. | |
:28:32. | :28:35. | ||
Republic. He took over from the Olympic champion in 2000. I have | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
grown up with him from the junior into the senior competitions and he | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
has been a fantastic all-round athlete. We will be back shortly | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
with the women's 800m event. The highlight this morning has | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
probably been Mo Farah going comfortably into the final of the | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
5,000m. He finished third in his heat. That final is on Saturday | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
night. So he has got about three days to prepare. Time to hand you | :29:07. | :29:14. | |
over to Matt Baker. What else have you got coming up? We have got | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
showjumping coming up. So fingers crossed for an individual medal | :29:19. | :29:27. | |
there. And also an unbelievable high bar final in the gymnastics | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
yesterday. And we have that champion hopefully coming into the | :29:31. | :29:40. |