:00:03. > :00:07.the beach volleyball. That is the call of duty. I was calling my wife
:00:07. > :00:14.saying I was going over to watch the final of the beach volleyball.
:00:14. > :00:17.I hope she gave you short shrift. We have been waiting four years for
:00:17. > :00:22.these Olympics to start and now there is just four Bay's lead for
:00:22. > :00:28.our athletes. It has been incredible with 22 gold medals, 13
:00:28. > :00:32.silver medals and 13 bronze medals. This morning all the top will be
:00:32. > :00:42.about whether our open waters were met mermaid can add to that medal
:00:42. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :01:01.haul. -- hour open waters were met Come on. All the British swimmers
:01:01. > :01:07.are doubts in Hyde Park to cheer her on, including her room-mate
:01:07. > :01:10.Becky Adlington and her fiance. We are going to be live from the
:01:10. > :01:16.Serpentine throughout the morning to keep you up-to-date with her
:01:16. > :01:21.progress. It is all about girl power to date. At 4:30pm Nicola
:01:21. > :01:25.Adams will be fighting for gold in the first ever women's boxing final.
:01:25. > :01:34.Women are now competing in every single spot that men do, but it has
:01:34. > :01:39.not always been a level playing field.
:01:39. > :01:43.When the modern Olympic Games were revived in 1896, women were
:01:43. > :01:48.perfectly welcome as spectators. At the turn of the century, British
:01:48. > :01:54.women still had no automatic right to inherit property, no right to
:01:54. > :01:57.divorce on the grounds of adultery and no right to vote. But on the
:01:57. > :02:03.playing-fields of Victorian England the game was on and the gold was
:02:03. > :02:07.equality. There were schools like Rodin, Cheltenham Ladies' College,
:02:07. > :02:14.the North London Collegiate, they wanted to play Games like their
:02:14. > :02:18.brothers. The girls played hockey, cricket and lacrosse and introduced
:02:18. > :02:24.Games to the curriculum. They contributed to young women taking
:02:24. > :02:29.part in the Olympic Games to date. As these girls became at women in
:02:29. > :02:34.the 1890s they formed societies like the Ladies' Golf Union and the
:02:34. > :02:38.Hockey Association of Scotland. Women were playing sport in public.
:02:38. > :02:45.The corset was being loosened. In the Paris Games of 1900 for the
:02:45. > :02:48.very first time they had a chance to shine. Admittedly only 2% of the
:02:48. > :02:54.entrants were women and they were only allowed to compete in golf and
:02:54. > :03:00.tennis, but the point was made. Women were beginning to make more
:03:00. > :03:05.demands in the political arena. The last bastion was to be accepted in
:03:05. > :03:11.the world of sport. They were not going to be invited in, so they had
:03:11. > :03:17.to push their way forward. progressive trickle of Paris showed
:03:17. > :03:21.little sign of becoming a flood. In say Louie in 19 oh for just six
:03:21. > :03:27.women competed and it wasn't until 1912 and a female swimming events
:03:27. > :03:33.were introduced. It would take a seismic event to rock the sporting
:03:33. > :03:38.establishment and the world at large. The eruption of World War in
:03:38. > :03:43.1914 proved a catalyst for social change. In England millions of
:03:43. > :03:48.women were drafted into the workforce. From the Civil Service
:03:48. > :03:52.to agriculture and even ship building. In a state of emergency
:03:52. > :03:58.women had earned a new roll in society and sport was at the heart
:03:58. > :04:04.of the action. Between 1918 and 1939 more than 150 women's football
:04:04. > :04:10.teams were formed in Britain, some attracting massive support. They
:04:10. > :04:15.were watched by thousands of people on Football Association grounds.
:04:15. > :04:19.Women were doing athletics and swimming and all sports. Things had
:04:19. > :04:24.changed irrevocably. There was no way back after that. But the
:04:24. > :04:32.participation of women at the Olympics was still a rarity. Just
:04:32. > :04:35.65 of the 2626 competitors in the post or Antwerp Games where women.
:04:35. > :04:40.The Olympic movement has been forced to change, in the 20s in
:04:40. > :04:45.particular. Women were looking for emancipation across the board, but
:04:45. > :04:51.the Olympic movement was not quite ready for it. Less than a month
:04:51. > :04:55.after British women finally gain voting equality, the 1928 Amsterdam
:04:55. > :05:01.Olympic Games began featuring for the very first time five women's
:05:01. > :05:07.athletics disciplines. His 16 year- old won the 100m to become the
:05:07. > :05:16.first female Olympic track champion. Meanwhile, the 800m final got under
:05:16. > :05:20.way in the heat of the Dutch summer. The focus of many was elsewhere.
:05:20. > :05:26.The Daily Mail said there were sobbing girls, all the women
:05:26. > :05:34.collapsed. It was a terrible sight. That is not troop. This was the
:05:34. > :05:41.testimony of one finalist, American Florence McDonald. In the race we
:05:41. > :05:46.did OK. But this collapsing business was a lot of nonsense.
:05:46. > :05:51.Sport was controlled by men and men in certain parts of society and the
:05:51. > :05:57.reaction to seeing women out in the sporting arena was, this is not
:05:57. > :06:02.ladylike. It was much more about that then it was about worrying
:06:02. > :06:05.about the health of the ladies, that was a red herring. The IOC
:06:05. > :06:12.decreed women should not run such distances and were banned from
:06:12. > :06:17.competing beyond 200m until the Rome Olympics of 1960. The Olympics
:06:17. > :06:22.superstars of the 1930s were lauded for their physicality and treatment,
:06:22. > :06:28.rather than their novelty and the Americans were setting the pace.
:06:28. > :06:33.There was a double gold medallist, an imperious presence on the track.
:06:33. > :06:39.The first woman to swim the 100m freestyle in under one minute, and
:06:39. > :06:45.the Supreme Helen Stephens, never beaten over any sprint distance.
:06:45. > :06:50.Then in 1939 the world went dark again. The second world war not
:06:50. > :06:55.only changed the course of history, but also the cause of women's lives.
:06:55. > :07:02.In emergency they had led the way and post-war they wanted to
:07:02. > :07:08.maintain a sense of responsibility. In 1948 a 38 year-old mother of two
:07:08. > :07:11.came to embody that ethos. Fanny black as coal and had spent the
:07:12. > :07:18.Second World War in Nazi-occupied Holland breaking six track world
:07:18. > :07:21.records. But her arrival at the London Games had a mixed response.
:07:21. > :07:28.She was criticised and receive letters say she should not leave
:07:28. > :07:32.her children. She had a hard time in being accepted. The critics soon
:07:32. > :07:40.revised their views as the so- called Flying housewife stormed to
:07:40. > :07:46.gold in four of the nine women's events. And there was one last
:07:46. > :07:54.surprise. When her third child was born in 1949 it became clear that
:07:54. > :07:59.Fanny had competed in London, now pregnant. 1940s austerity gave way
:07:59. > :08:05.to 1950s prosperity and things were changing for Western women. In
:08:05. > :08:10.America 35% of adult females were in employment by 1956 and that was
:08:10. > :08:15.also the year of the first ever Australian Olympics. They
:08:15. > :08:21.celebrated the free-spirited Dawn Fraser. I spoke my mind and I do
:08:21. > :08:26.not do anything that I do not want to do. The working-class Fraser
:08:26. > :08:31.proved that sport could be for all. Governing bodies, institutions,
:08:31. > :08:35.management, that was different. Men still dominated the idea see who
:08:36. > :08:41.would not have a female member until 1981 and there was a lost
:08:41. > :08:45.generation of sports women. Diane lead there was a great example of
:08:45. > :08:51.how women missed out on being a Olympians as a result of the 1928
:08:51. > :08:56.ban. She was the first women in the world to run under five minutes for
:08:56. > :09:02.the mile. She did that at the same time as Roger Bannister breaking
:09:02. > :09:07.the four-minute mile, and yet he has heard of her? By the 1960s
:09:07. > :09:12.times were changing. It was not just about sex, drugs and rock and
:09:12. > :09:17.roll, this was the era of demonstration, of civil unrest and
:09:17. > :09:21.of women's lib. The advent of the contraceptive Pill meant that women
:09:21. > :09:25.could control their own fertility and therefore their own destiny. As
:09:25. > :09:30.feminism a forged forward, so too did British sportswoman on the
:09:30. > :09:38.Olympic stage. First it was a teenage Corporation clerk from
:09:38. > :09:42.Huddersfield. I was 19 and 16 days when I went there. To me it was a
:09:42. > :09:48.bit of a dream. I never thought about winning. But I never thought
:09:48. > :09:56.about losing, I just wanted to do my best. Her best was good enough
:09:56. > :10:01.for gold and the world record. I came back Huddersfield had a
:10:01. > :10:06.civic reception for me. There were ladies crying. I could not believe
:10:06. > :10:11.how much it meant to other people. You do not realise it at the time
:10:11. > :10:16.when you are breaking down these barriers, but as you look back you
:10:16. > :10:21.realise we were doing something right at the time. She was not the
:10:21. > :10:31.only focus in 1960. A fellow Yorkshire woman took silver in the
:10:31. > :10:35.
:10:35. > :10:40.100m and a bronze in the 200m. To Tokyo in 1964 for the press she was
:10:40. > :10:47.the plucky outsider to claim the first athletics gold medal ever won
:10:47. > :10:51.by a British woman, Ann Packer. It she was the media's and a dog story,
:10:52. > :10:58.Mary Rand represented a different obsession. She was the perfect
:10:58. > :11:08.combination of power and beauty and became the first woman to leap over
:11:08. > :11:08.
:11:08. > :11:13.22 feet. A beautiful jump. It is the first 22 fighter ever by a
:11:13. > :11:18.woman. She was the ideal subject for the burgeoning tabloid
:11:18. > :11:24.newspapers. When she found a celebrity admirer in 1965, her pop
:11:24. > :11:29.culture credentials were complete. I understand Mick Jagger was asked
:11:29. > :11:32.if he could take someone on a date and he would he take? He said meat.
:11:32. > :11:39.Then you see black and white footage of the Sixties and you
:11:39. > :11:44.think, I was part of that. These golden girls were genuine pioneers
:11:44. > :11:49.for a female athletes and they had a huge profile driving TV audiences
:11:49. > :11:54.and newspaper circulation and they were also popular. Anita lawns
:11:54. > :12:00.Berra became the first woman to be voted sportswoman personality Of
:12:00. > :12:05.the Year in 1962. There was a growing appetite for women's sport,
:12:05. > :12:11.but the battle now was to be taken seriously. In this battle ground
:12:11. > :12:17.there was no greater Warrior and Billie-Jean King. She had already
:12:17. > :12:25.won 10 Grand Slam singles titles won in 1973 she took on former
:12:25. > :12:31.Wimbledon champion in the so-called Battle of the sexes. 50 million
:12:31. > :12:35.people saw her win the battle. It connected women's sport to women's
:12:36. > :12:40.rights and sport was affecting society it. I wanted to change
:12:40. > :12:47.people's attitudes were back match. I wanted us never to look back
:12:47. > :12:57.after that. I wanted girls to believe in themselves. As for the
:12:57. > :12:57.
:12:57. > :13:03.golden girl generation, Mary Peters She was a big part of the team. You
:13:03. > :13:07.did not think of her as a woman, she was a great athlete.
:13:07. > :13:11.Montreal in 1976, women's handball, rowing and basketball were added to
:13:11. > :13:20.the Olympic programme, and a woman achieved the impossible -
:13:20. > :13:28.perfection. There it is, ten! Olympic history for Nadia Comaneci.
:13:28. > :13:31.By the 1980s, women were reading the news and they were the news.
:13:31. > :13:37.The dramas of the female players on the Olympic stage were just as
:13:37. > :13:43.compelling. The rivalry of Fatima Whitbread and Tessa Sanderson. The
:13:43. > :13:46.acrimony of Zola Budd and Mary Decker. And the incredible exploits
:13:46. > :13:51.of Florence Griffith join us. After nearly a century of Olympic
:13:51. > :13:54.competition, this was also the decade that finally delivered the
:13:55. > :14:02.holy grail for female athletes, the marathon. By then, you already had
:14:02. > :14:08.great marathon runners. It was not as though they could argue that
:14:08. > :14:13.standard was not very good. It was very, very good. No 90,000 people
:14:13. > :14:20.greeted the victory in Los Angeles, a win that was nearly 100 years in
:14:20. > :14:25.the making. By the 1990s, sport was big business. Advertising,
:14:25. > :14:29.sponsorship, marketing or meant that your body was your brand, and
:14:29. > :14:36.for women in particular, that meant that what it looked like was just
:14:36. > :14:42.as important as what it could do. Women and women in sport are judged
:14:42. > :14:48.on how they look. It is not right. We only have to look at the
:14:48. > :14:53.magazine covers to see what type of women make it on the front cover.
:14:53. > :14:57.We are happy to have your on somewhere on page 108, but that
:14:57. > :15:02.body image is not quite fra from cover. 90 nature foresaw the first
:15:03. > :15:09.woman from an Islamic nation win an Olympic medal. This is a gold from
:15:09. > :15:14.Morocco. Since then, there has been slow evolution, rather than rapid
:15:14. > :15:19.revolution. The inclusion of female athletes from Saudi Arabia, Brunei
:15:19. > :15:23.and Qatar for the first time in London is a positive step. But
:15:23. > :15:28.several Muslim countries still repressed sporting participation
:15:28. > :15:32.for women at home. The inclusion of women's boxing in London offers
:15:32. > :15:37.parity, in sporting terms, with men. It has been a long road to Olympic
:15:37. > :15:43.equality. 42% of competitors in Beijing were women. London is
:15:43. > :15:47.hoping for the magic 50. By have already seen athletics change in my
:15:47. > :15:52.lifetime. And I am now seeing the opportunities that are available
:15:52. > :15:57.for women, if they choose to go down that route, if they choose a
:15:57. > :16:01.life in sport. And that is a great thing. We men have made great
:16:01. > :16:06.strides in society, particularly in the Olympic Games, but there is
:16:06. > :16:09.still a long way to go, particularly as coaches and on the
:16:09. > :16:13.governing bodies and the international federations. These
:16:13. > :16:17.are the places where women have to appear, so that they can make much
:16:17. > :16:21.more progress. By the end of these games, the chances are that the
:16:21. > :16:26.British medal haul will have been dominated by women. And what will
:16:26. > :16:29.matter to them is and not their gender or their parents, but purely
:16:29. > :16:33.quality of their performance. And that is a positive and powerful
:16:33. > :16:41.message not just two women in the pool, on the track or in the saddle,
:16:41. > :16:45.but two women in every environment. What a remarkable piece that was.
:16:45. > :16:49.Clare is at the water's edge at the Serpentine, so we can talk about
:16:49. > :16:52.this more. I am sure lots of younger viewers especially,
:16:52. > :16:58.watching that piece, will be surprised at what you were saying.
:16:58. > :17:04.For me, on a global scale, the moment of this Games was Sarah
:17:04. > :17:07.Akhtar, when she was running down the final 100m in the 800m heats.
:17:07. > :17:11.We have talked about a legacy of these games for British sport, but
:17:11. > :17:16.what do you think this does for the youngsters in Saudi Arabia that we
:17:16. > :17:20.have been watching her run-down that final straight? De point I was
:17:20. > :17:26.making in that feature was that sport is not in isolation from the
:17:26. > :17:29.rest of life. It is part of a wider movement. It played its part in the
:17:29. > :17:33.early 20th century and is playing its part now in the early 21st
:17:33. > :17:37.century, when you have a broad range of women doing so many
:17:37. > :17:41.different sports and being seen out here being allowed to be determined
:17:41. > :17:45.and competitive and being allowed to sweat. Sarah Akhtar, that was a
:17:45. > :17:49.huge step forward, and I hope it makes a real difference to the
:17:49. > :17:52.education of women in the Middle East and their access to sports
:17:53. > :17:57.facilities. And that is just the beginning. I hope we see, through
:17:57. > :18:00.the Olympic movement, things changing over the next decades.
:18:00. > :18:05.my cultural perspective, the men to be getting behind the women and
:18:05. > :18:09.cheering them on and go the extra distance, you only have to think
:18:09. > :18:14.back to Katherine Grainger and her story of trying and trying to get
:18:14. > :18:18.that gold and how everybody was willing every ounce of energy for
:18:19. > :18:22.her to get that gold. For me, Katherine Grainger is the
:18:22. > :18:29.inspiration of these Olympic Games. I know it is disingenuous to pick
:18:29. > :18:33.just one, but by inspiration, I mean, what are you touched by that
:18:33. > :18:37.you feel you can emulate in your own walk of life? That message of
:18:37. > :18:44.if at first you don't succeed, try and try again and eventually you
:18:44. > :18:49.will succeed. Katherine Grainger is so still and strong. I love the
:18:49. > :18:52.energy around her. She is such a positive force in that team. The
:18:52. > :18:56.rest of the British athletes look up to her and the fact that she
:18:56. > :19:01.does not ever get to down when things are going wrong. You know
:19:01. > :19:05.how broken she was inside, but she turns back into positive energy and
:19:05. > :19:09.wins the race. She is almost so serene and gracious in victory. For
:19:09. > :19:15.me, she would be my nomination for carrying the flag and the closing
:19:15. > :19:23.ceremony. Many deserve to be nominated, but her determination to
:19:23. > :19:27.overcome any sense of failure was incredible. I talked to him thought
:19:27. > :19:32.about this, and his attitude to failure was interesting. He said,
:19:32. > :19:36.you have to be unafraid to fail. Know what failure is, but don't be
:19:36. > :19:41.afraid of it. It is a strong message for all of us. When you
:19:41. > :19:46.look at the British rowing team on the women's side, they had three
:19:46. > :19:50.golds, nothing had a goal before. It would seem unheard-of, looking
:19:50. > :19:55.at the races we have watched. Nicola Adams, this is an incredible
:19:55. > :19:59.story. She is now into the boxing final, the first women's boxing
:19:59. > :20:03.final. What were your thoughts when you heard that women's boxing would
:20:03. > :20:07.be included? I were so thrilled in terms of equality. If you object to
:20:07. > :20:10.women's boxing, you have to object to men's boxing as well. If you
:20:10. > :20:16.don't like the idea of people are hitting each other, you have to be
:20:16. > :20:19.equal in your dislike of it. But I think even people who were a little
:20:19. > :20:25.unsure of women's boxing have watched it and been impressed at
:20:25. > :20:28.the accuracy and technique. Ireland are going mad for Katie Taylor. She
:20:28. > :20:33.is the biggest star in their Olympic team, and they expect her
:20:33. > :20:37.to win gold in boxing. They are embracing it. I have met people who
:20:37. > :20:42.are already beginning to tell me about her. I am going to the
:20:42. > :20:46.women's boxing tonight and an excited to see what it is like.
:20:46. > :20:51.age is no barrier. Mary King is a perfect example. Women have been
:20:51. > :20:56.competing against men for some years in the equestrian, and are
:20:56. > :21:02.arguably better riders. Absolutely. If you look across the years at the
:21:02. > :21:07.iconic figures in equestrian sport, Lucinda Green, Mary King, 51 and a
:21:07. > :21:10.mother at two. She came back from a broken neck. If anybody has ever
:21:10. > :21:16.said to lurk, you shouldn't be doing this, she has politely said,
:21:16. > :21:20.I think you will find I should and I can. She was part of the silver
:21:20. > :21:27.when in the Olympic team and is set on competing in Rio in four years'
:21:27. > :21:33.time. It is lovely to see the range. I go back to the point about
:21:33. > :21:38.inspiration. You need to see people who are like you. For women over 50,
:21:38. > :21:42.Mary King is the one they looked too. They can say, if she can do it,
:21:42. > :21:47.I can. I am for anybody with any kind of stomach problems or born
:21:47. > :21:51.with a collapsed lung, you would look at Laura Trott for inspiration.
:21:51. > :21:55.What a story she has. Amazing. During her interviews afterwards,
:21:55. > :22:02.she said, I have just got used to the fact that I've thrown up all
:22:02. > :22:05.the time. I just get on with it. If you do have health problems or you
:22:05. > :22:09.have something that is considered by others to be distasteful, you
:22:09. > :22:14.just get on with it. You throw up in public and get on with it. That
:22:14. > :22:20.is what she does, and she is amazing. It is her success that we
:22:20. > :22:23.celebrate. And Jess Ennis, the biggest star of all, the face of
:22:23. > :22:28.London 2012. With all of that attention around her, to perform
:22:28. > :22:32.the way she did from the word go, to set personal bests, to break
:22:32. > :22:38.Olympic records, she has performed stunningly well and is a mental and
:22:38. > :22:42.physical example to everyone. said at the start, I am sure lots
:22:42. > :22:47.of younger viewers will be thinking, why have women not always been
:22:47. > :22:52.involved? It is a good point. Keri- Anne Payne will be going off the
:22:52. > :22:55.pontoon behind Clare in about five minutes. When the Beijing silver
:22:55. > :22:59.medallist was asked if she was bothered about what lurks beneath
:23:00. > :23:05.the waters of Hyde Park, her reply was "it is nothing compared to the
:23:05. > :23:10.dead dogs of China or the jellyfish off Melbourne". But maybe she
:23:10. > :23:14.should keep an ear out for a ticking crocodile, because the 28
:23:14. > :23:17.acre lake is the setting for J M Barrie's prequel to Peter Pan's
:23:18. > :23:23.adventures in Never Land. Keri-Anne Payne will certainly be hoping for
:23:23. > :23:28.a fairy-tale ending to her Olympic dream.
:23:28. > :23:37.It is all about who is best on the day, who makes the right choices at
:23:37. > :23:42.the right time. People can tell me a million times that I have the
:23:42. > :23:48.gold medal. I don't. I wish it was as easy as that. I have to make
:23:48. > :23:52.sure I am still on that pontoon, about to dive in, and I am happy
:23:52. > :24:02.with the training and preparation I have done. I know I am going to
:24:02. > :24:07.
:24:07. > :24:15.give it all I have got. And it is gold to Keri-Anne Payne of Great
:24:15. > :24:20.Britain. Last season took more out of me than I realised. I sound
:24:20. > :24:24.young and 24, but I have been doing this since I was 12. That is 12
:24:24. > :24:28.years of distance training on my body, and it took its toll on me
:24:28. > :24:36.last season. I had a few niggles and a back injury, which took a
:24:36. > :24:44.while to get over. Then I had a kidney infection after trials. But
:24:44. > :24:48.what gets me over that is having the great support I have got. For
:24:48. > :24:53.me, open water, it has been incredible how much it has grown
:24:53. > :24:58.over the last four years. If I can just say I have inspired one or two
:24:58. > :25:08.people to get into water and try it out, get a family to get involved
:25:08. > :25:17.
:25:17. > :25:22.And Keri-Anne is going to take silver! What a race that was.
:25:22. > :25:29.expecting the unexpected. Nobody seems to like to lead, so it always
:25:29. > :25:34.falls on me, which suits me. On the day, I will probably have to focus
:25:34. > :25:40.on what I need to do. I will just soak up the atmosphere and the
:25:40. > :25:50.cheering. I know most of it will be for me, hopefully, if there are
:25:50. > :25:53.lots of Union Jacks, and do my best. Well, the Brownlee brothers had
:25:53. > :25:59.success in the Serpentine as their first leg of their gold and bronze
:25:59. > :26:06.triathlon. But this event is a bit longer. 10 kilometres. In old money,
:26:06. > :26:16.it is six miles and 376 yards. Clare is at a pontoon with Beijing
:26:16. > :26:18.
:26:18. > :26:22.behind us as Keri-Anne Payne gets a huge roar from the crowd. The
:26:22. > :26:31.British supporters are all around Hyde Park. We have the perfect
:26:31. > :26:36.David Davies has just set, I have got goose bumps. It is amazing. The
:26:36. > :26:40.crowd went mental. There are Union Jacks everywhere. The sun is
:26:40. > :26:46.boiling today. I can't believe I am in the UK. It is great to be
:26:46. > :26:51.involved. The air are 25 swimmers. Keri-Anne was drawn 15, meaning she
:26:51. > :26:56.starts in the middle of the pack. It is a lottery at the start. You
:26:56. > :26:59.get a designated place on the pontoon, where your number is. Even
:27:00. > :27:08.though it is 10k, she can go out quick and get to the front of the
:27:08. > :27:13.pack. That is where you have got to be, so you are in nice, clean water.
:27:13. > :27:16.Then you get into the race. long now till they dive into the
:27:16. > :27:26.waters of the Serpentine. It will take around two hours to complete
:27:26. > :27:51.
:27:51. > :27:56.this swim. mashed right in the centre, dear me.
:27:56. > :28:03.I would not like to be at the back. Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain
:28:03. > :28:08.has a very clear tactic. With 600 metres to the first boy, she is
:28:08. > :28:18.going for it. Absolutely. Her tactic is to get out to the front,
:28:18. > :28:27.
:28:27. > :28:32.to take the race. She will have certain periods in the race where
:28:32. > :28:41.she will try to break away. She said in her interview, expect the
:28:41. > :28:51.unexpected. For more, and what you think is happening from the pre-
:28:51. > :29:02.
:29:02. > :29:09.through the competitors with you. Another point about the conditions,
:29:09. > :29:19.it is flat, still, calm. The only waves are coming from the boats
:29:19. > :29:23.
:29:23. > :29:30.behind. What is interesting is it will favour pool swimmers. Just
:29:30. > :29:35.seeing Risztov. A very good reputation. Or, at a very bad
:29:35. > :29:44.reputation of getting yellow card us. You're not allowed to impede
:29:44. > :29:53.swimmers. She was very close to Keri-Anne. Very important, this
:29:53. > :30:01.first buoy. Look at that, Keri-Anne, leading on the righthand side.
:30:01. > :30:07.Going with her, Risztov of Hungary. And, on the left-hand side,
:30:07. > :30:15.interesting. It is a narrow course, so they won't be too far away from
:30:15. > :30:25.each other. In that group, it is hard to see. They all have white
:30:25. > :30:28.
:30:28. > :30:33.hats. What will be interesting, staying at the hips of your
:30:33. > :30:41.competitor, of the swimmer who is leading, it is a better place than
:30:41. > :30:45.being behind them, the drafting idea, holding the water, to the
:30:45. > :30:54.slightly the right or left. He might notice some swimmers getting
:30:54. > :30:59.into that position. Risztov was in that position but she has moved up
:30:59. > :31:09.with Keri-Anne Payne. In that the rest of the pack, we will try to
:31:09. > :31:14.
:31:14. > :31:22.on to Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain. This is a very normal
:31:22. > :31:27.tactic. It is, to go out as hard as you can. She will try to push that
:31:27. > :31:33.first 500m, then settle into a comfortable pace. She has gone off
:31:33. > :31:38.very quickly, a little bit of clear water, I am surprised at that.
:31:38. > :31:44.quite interesting, this is her tactic. I am surprised that Risztov
:31:44. > :31:51.is going with her. There aren't many breakaways. That is the start
:31:51. > :32:01.again, a replay. All doing pretty good dives. Keri-Anne looked very
:32:01. > :32:06.
:32:06. > :32:12.good. A beautiful dive. Swimming Paul style. -- pool style. We have
:32:12. > :32:16.been talking with the coaches, about the turn tactics. If you go
:32:16. > :32:22.into return, in a big group, because of the fact you have to
:32:22. > :32:27.turn sharply, someone in the group but on the side, can lose out an
:32:27. > :32:33.awful lot. What will happen is, the Leeds
:32:33. > :32:42.swimmer will get as tight as they can to the buoy. At the top of the
:32:42. > :32:52.picture, they are starting to make a move. There is a lead in. If you
:32:52. > :32:59.
:32:59. > :33:04.see that purport enough to bring -- purple inner tubing. A lead-in buoy.
:33:04. > :33:08.If the first goes in, what usually happens is, the others, if they are
:33:08. > :33:16.in a bunch, they have to go single FA because it is easier to get
:33:16. > :33:26.around it rather than do a wide angle. So then a line-up more going
:33:26. > :33:28.
:33:28. > :33:33.into the buoy. You can have a five swimmers in about six metres. Keri-
:33:33. > :33:41.Anne, this is where she will make a move. She knows that the field
:33:41. > :33:47.world string out a bit. If she kicks in with a burst of energy,
:33:47. > :33:56.she can leave some people behind, a big tactic on the turn, to make the
:33:56. > :34:06.most of it to leave the field. And it seems to have worked. We will
:34:06. > :34:08.
:34:08. > :34:17.have to look with our binoculars. I think it is Keri-Anne to the left.
:34:17. > :34:26.Risztov for Hungary. Keri-Anne having a little luck. Look at the
:34:26. > :34:33.turn again. Risztov going in first, but Keri-Anne gaining two metres.
:34:33. > :34:43.Those swimmers are in a line behind her. Elbows everywhere. Stringing
:34:43. > :34:49.
:34:49. > :34:59.out. That is not just turn tactics, but
:34:59. > :35:02.
:35:02. > :35:08.also a swimming speed. Keri-Anne's tactics, 500m, get out there and
:35:08. > :35:18.make sure you were in the league, she does like the clear water. --
:35:18. > :35:18.
:35:18. > :35:23.in the lead. Then, find an even pace. Then, she tends to pick it up
:35:23. > :35:28.and keep applying pressure, every 1,000m, keep on applying the
:35:28. > :35:33.pressure. So when she gets to the finish, she has lost as many people
:35:33. > :35:42.as possible. She does have a good sprint finish, but hopefully there
:35:42. > :35:49.aren't that many people to race into that sprint finish.
:35:49. > :35:59.STUDIO: Keri-Anne Payne has the Olympics foremost in her mind, but
:35:59. > :36:00.
:36:00. > :36:06.in September she gets married. Behind the scenes, this must be
:36:06. > :36:11.added? It is difficult. A funny feeling. When I competed on the
:36:11. > :36:17.first day of the Olympics, I was so confident and in control that I
:36:17. > :36:22.would swim well. Stepping out, was such an exciting feeling. But here,
:36:22. > :36:27.it is completely uncontrolled, really emotional. Thinking about
:36:27. > :36:32.all of the wrong things, all of the psychology lessons are out of the
:36:32. > :36:38.window now! Yes, I now know what my parents had to go through, watching
:36:38. > :36:43.me. When did you last speak to Keri-Anne? Five I spoke to her last
:36:43. > :36:49.night. And I got a text this morning, saying, remember your
:36:49. > :36:53.suncream! She is looking after meet all of the time. It shows me she is
:36:53. > :36:59.happy and confident. This is the environment she revels in, that
:36:59. > :37:05.happy, family atmosphere, the sun shining, almost like she is naked
:37:05. > :37:09.back in South Africa. The support here, the crowds will be unreal.
:37:09. > :37:14.will almost be like a Mexican wave with people cheering. That is one
:37:14. > :37:24.of the things she thought about in her preparation, not to get over-
:37:24. > :37:26.
:37:26. > :37:31.excited. Just to keep their tour calm -- keep it all calm. She has
:37:31. > :37:35.had such a great team, to help her know where all of the blind spots
:37:35. > :37:43.are, where it would be sunny. Fingers crossed, everything is in
:37:43. > :37:49.place. It takes one elbow or fist to his throat it off course. When
:37:49. > :37:54.you say, thinking about the wrong things, that's the sort of things,
:37:54. > :38:01.that somebody could damage her chance? There are so many variables,
:38:01. > :38:06.we don't know what will happen. She is the one who will be focused, her
:38:06. > :38:12.mind on the job, she will let me worry about that. I hope you can
:38:12. > :38:17.enjoy it and she swims as well as she can. A really hope she wins.
:38:17. > :38:24.This is an iconic venue, an amazing atmosphere, the weather is perfect.
:38:24. > :38:30.I hope this is a shot in the arm for open water swimming. It is so
:38:30. > :38:40.family-friendly. That is what Keri- Anne is most interested in,
:38:40. > :38:46.
:38:46. > :38:55.creating that excitement around Anne, leading at the moment. You
:38:55. > :39:03.could just see Gorman of Australia, in third place. At 26, she is not
:39:03. > :39:13.bad at all. World Championships last year, she was 13th.
:39:13. > :39:14.
:39:14. > :39:24.Commonwealth bronze medal. She will have a decent sprint at the end.
:39:24. > :39:46.
:39:46. > :39:53.She has excellent coaches. And she anyone has done anything untoward.
:39:53. > :39:59.You have a yellow card. You can have a straight red card. Two
:39:59. > :40:05.yellow card so make a red card. It is up to the referee to decide
:40:05. > :40:09.whether you have done something wrong. Going over the top of
:40:09. > :40:16.somebody is clearly not allowed. Somebody got a straight red card
:40:16. > :40:26.for dunking somebody. Somebody got a red card because their coach
:40:26. > :40:27.
:40:27. > :40:37.through a water bottle at a summer. They are allowed up to five metres
:40:37. > :40:38.
:40:38. > :40:42.long poles. On the end of that, you can put a drink, all sorts of stuff.
:40:42. > :40:51.David, you have been in his position, and try to get stuff out
:40:51. > :40:56.of those things, how easy is it? Many people are stopping on the
:40:56. > :41:01.first lap. On the next few laps, it may be interesting where a couple
:41:01. > :41:09.of summers come in at the same time, getting a drink, carbohydrates. You
:41:09. > :41:16.have to do it very quickly, you try to flip on your back. Positions do
:41:16. > :41:24.change around the feeding pontoon. It can be carnage at times. Going
:41:24. > :41:34.back to that swimmer. What happened, you can just see it. It was in a
:41:34. > :41:38.
:41:38. > :41:45.cup! What happened... They have to go around the right side of that
:41:45. > :41:52.buoy. A coach hold the poll out, the swimmer missed it, he was
:41:52. > :42:02.clearly annoyed, he pulled the poll in, through a water bottle, hit
:42:02. > :42:08.
:42:08. > :42:15.another summer. And she was given a red card, because of her coach.
:42:15. > :42:24.The referee will blow a whistle really allowed, he puts the number
:42:24. > :42:34.on to the board, until you acknowledge the red or yellow card.
:42:34. > :42:38.
:42:38. > :42:48.Risztov has had quite a few yellow people in the stands, then about
:42:48. > :42:56.
:42:56. > :43:02.the same as a we are getting. They have gone behind the trees from the
:43:02. > :43:08.commentary position. My binoculars on not much use at the moment.
:43:08. > :43:13.About six swimmers are trying to get onto their heels. It is a bit
:43:13. > :43:19.like cycling in the road race, the breakaway situation is the same.
:43:19. > :43:29.You do not want to be left behind. Keri-Anne's turn, she will be
:43:29. > :43:29.
:43:29. > :43:39.waiting to make another jump. Melissa Gorman, the Australian
:43:39. > :43:40.
:43:40. > :43:49.there. It is not a very sharp turn, it is quite gentle. They will go
:43:49. > :43:59.right around this one, so they probably won't go three deep.
:43:59. > :44:11.
:44:11. > :44:19.I am getting the same as you at the moment. But what Adrian saying
:44:19. > :44:25.about the race being compact. Going into the last turn, if you are
:44:25. > :44:30.taking it is wide you are taking it sharp. I think Keri-Anne got a
:44:30. > :44:37.round that one OK, but the longer the race stays like this the more
:44:37. > :44:40.instances that there will be when they turn. The Serpentine in Hyde
:44:40. > :44:47.Park is six laps, so they will be turning a lot so there could
:44:47. > :44:55.potentially be a lot of incidents. She came out of that one OK. They
:44:55. > :45:00.will be completing the first lap soon. I don't think Keri-Anne likes
:45:00. > :45:04.to be amongst it. One of her tactics is to go out and get ahead
:45:04. > :45:14.of them. So being in it is an uncomfortable position for her to
:45:14. > :45:18.
:45:18. > :45:24.be in. I imagine she will try to get out of the pack and swim to the
:45:24. > :45:34.left and right of it. We will have to see how it goes, it is a long
:45:34. > :45:34.
:45:34. > :45:44.race. Just over two hours. We're just on Neely 18 minutes. Plenty of
:45:44. > :45:47.
:45:47. > :45:56.time for this to pan out. They will be swearing at a pace. -- swimming.
:45:56. > :46:06.I think Keri-Anne will be assessing this. She is at the top of your
:46:06. > :46:10.
:46:10. > :46:18.picture with Melissa Gorman. The judges or keep an eye on it.
:46:18. > :46:22.Melissa Gorman is losing track a bit. It is a bit murky in the
:46:22. > :46:32.Serpentine, but apparently the water is a little bit fresh.
:46:32. > :46:33.
:46:33. > :46:37.Melissa Gorman is a little bit off. She is not sticking with a rhythm.
:46:37. > :46:43.They are coming in front of the stands, it is the first time they
:46:43. > :46:48.have been round to this point again. They are just checking, for the
:46:48. > :46:53.rest of a laps it will be easier. To the left there will be a bridge
:46:54. > :46:59.coming up. They swim underneath that. They have transponders in
:46:59. > :47:09.their wrists. Underneath the bridge there are chips in both wrists,
:47:09. > :47:10.
:47:10. > :47:20.just in case which ever on goes over first. And that stops the
:47:20. > :47:25.
:47:25. > :47:35.clock and they will get a split time. Angela Maurer is in the pack
:47:35. > :47:36.
:47:36. > :47:46.as well. The leading group closest to us, Angela Gorman -- Melissa
:47:46. > :47:51.
:47:51. > :47:58.Gorman of Australia, Keri-Anne Payne and also Hayley Anderson.
:47:58. > :48:05.Marianna Lymperta, I am surprised she is so far back. She did get the
:48:05. > :48:14.bronze in the World Championships. Martina Grimaldi is down the pack
:48:14. > :48:22.as well. Stringing out a little bit more. It looks like it is Melissa
:48:22. > :48:27.Gorman who has taken a bit of a lead. To the left of your shot, is
:48:27. > :48:36.the American, Hayley Anderson. They are now trying to fight for
:48:36. > :48:46.positions. Melissa Gorman it really has gone. Keri-Anne Payne still out
:48:46. > :48:55.
:48:55. > :49:00.on her own. A lot of splash. That is a better picture. You have
:49:00. > :49:08.Melissa Gorman leading and making a move. Melissa Gorman is a good
:49:08. > :49:13.swimming pool summer, so she will be tough to beat. The first 20
:49:13. > :49:19.minutes in this women's 10 kilometre open-water. Keri-Anne
:49:19. > :49:23.Payne has started well. Leading from Australia is Melissa Gorman.
:49:23. > :49:33.Then there is even a staff of hungry. Keri-Anne Payne has started
:49:33. > :49:38.
:49:38. > :49:42.An hour and 40 minutes of swimming still to go. People behind us are
:49:42. > :49:47.enjoying the Sunshine in the Olympic Park. The crowds are
:49:47. > :49:53.pouring out of the Olympic Stadium. Earlier they had good reason to
:49:53. > :49:59.cheer. Good news for Great Britain 4x4 relay team as they brought the
:49:59. > :50:06.batten safely home to qualify for tomorrow's final. Martyn Rooney
:50:06. > :50:10.anchored them as they finish second in their heat behind Trinidad &
:50:10. > :50:16.Tobago stop a season's best of three minutes and 38 seconds. There
:50:16. > :50:23.is more medal hopes. Every day, seriously we are in with a good
:50:23. > :50:28.chance at Greenwich Park. Lizzie Greenwood used can give us news on
:50:28. > :50:34.the individual Grand Prix freestyle. This is dressage. We understand
:50:34. > :50:39.this is done to music? So it is quite quirky? This is what the
:50:39. > :50:45.dressage fans have been waiting for. It is what dressage fans across the
:50:45. > :50:50.world loved to see. Dressage to music, the top 18 riders from the
:50:50. > :50:56.team competition including all three of Great Britain's gold
:50:56. > :51:00.medalists. They have around six minutes to impress the judges. It
:51:00. > :51:05.is also artistic impression. They can do their own routine and to
:51:05. > :51:10.their own music. I know you like your ice-skating and it is a like
:51:10. > :51:20.the free programme in ice-skating. That they can do whatever they want
:51:20. > :51:20.
:51:20. > :51:27.to do. Instead of having taught all and Dean, we have Charlotte
:51:27. > :51:31.Dujardin. She is favourite for individual jury -- glory.
:51:31. > :51:37.Tuesday they got the first ever team gold in the dressage. Who are
:51:37. > :51:42.the main competitors in this one? Quite a few, but 26 riders who
:51:42. > :51:50.could try to wrestle the gold medal out of Charlotte's hands. But I
:51:50. > :51:55.think she will do it. If not it could be one of the Dutch riders.
:51:55. > :52:02.She is the world number one and is very good at dressage to music. And
:52:03. > :52:09.of course, there is always a German threat. She has a horse called
:52:09. > :52:18.Damon Hill. You can't also ruled out the triple Olympic gold-
:52:18. > :52:28.medallist, and an 18-year-old horse. If they do not beat Charlotte, you
:52:28. > :52:32.have Carl Hester, Charlotte's Mensa and trainer who Co owns her horse.
:52:32. > :52:37.And Laura Bechtolsheimer, he will be riding her horse, it Mistral
:52:37. > :52:43.Hojris. I do know there is some public knowledge Laura will be
:52:43. > :52:49.riding to the Lion King and Carl Hester has a range of music brought
:52:49. > :52:56.together a very patriotic theme. The Escape to victory. Apparently
:52:56. > :53:01.big Ben chimes as they do their changes. And I think when Charlotte
:53:01. > :53:09.goes down the sense a line though mock be a dry eye in the house. It
:53:09. > :53:14.all starts at 12:30pm. You can see all of that on the red button, but
:53:14. > :53:19.now we will hand back to Andrew Jameson and Adrian Moorhouse at the
:53:19. > :53:29.Serpentine in hard-packed ASH Hyde Park. We understand there has been
:53:29. > :53:52.
:53:52. > :54:02.back up. I don't know if it is a good idea to go and then allow the
:54:02. > :54:05.
:54:05. > :54:11.others to catch up. We talk about Keri-Anne in the blue cap, making a
:54:11. > :54:21.decent moves. She has a navigational radar. It is something
:54:21. > :54:29.
:54:29. > :54:39.that is built in. This win in legs without goggles on. -- legs.
:54:39. > :54:43.had to know where she was. David Davis had some issues and we will
:54:44. > :54:51.have to hear what he says about that at some time. He had his
:54:51. > :54:55.goggles blacked-out been training so he could swim blind, so to speak.
:54:55. > :55:03.On the left, Keri-Anne Payne back in front. Why as Melissa Gorman
:55:03. > :55:07.done that? She used a lot of energy to break the field. It did not look
:55:07. > :55:13.as though they had caused her up, but it look like she had gone back
:55:13. > :55:20.into the pack. It is still a very big pack? You are right. Sometimes
:55:20. > :55:28.it swimmers do have places in the race to make a move. She is now
:55:28. > :55:33.drifting over to the left. The other two, Keri-Anne on the right,
:55:33. > :55:42.has a Laser sharp eye for the line. If I was Melissa Gorman I would be
:55:42. > :55:50.sticking with her. David days if -- David Davies has done this in the
:55:51. > :55:54.past, David? I am just seeing Melissa Gorman making a break after
:55:55. > :55:58.the end of the first lap. Sometimes they do that because they don't
:55:58. > :56:03.like being in the pack so they will go to the front for a bit, have
:56:03. > :56:06.some clear water and then maybe fall back into the pack. But as
:56:06. > :56:16.Adrian said he looked as though she got to the front but did not know
:56:16. > :56:20.where she was going. Looked up a few times that. It is surprising
:56:20. > :56:26.for Hyde Park because it is a compact course. Citing shouldn't be
:56:26. > :56:33.in issue here. Keri-Anne looks comfortable. She is not panicking,
:56:33. > :56:39.there is a long way to go. She is in clear water. She is swimming out
:56:39. > :56:49.to the side of the pack, going to a very good rhythm, and clear water.
:56:49. > :57:04.
:57:04. > :57:08.13th on the 800 freestyle and is a very good swimming pool summer. I
:57:08. > :57:14.wouldn't be surprised if she tails off a little bit towards the second
:57:14. > :57:21.half of this race. Pretty much 30 minutes gone and they will be
:57:21. > :57:31.almost a quarter of the way through this race. So about 2,500 metres
:57:31. > :57:33.
:57:33. > :57:36.done. 7,500 to go! The Hungarian at the top. We have Melissa Gorman in
:57:36. > :57:42.the white hat of Australia and then closes to us, Keri-Anne Payne of
:57:42. > :57:52.Great Britain. There Hungarian doesn't mind using her elbows now
:57:52. > :58:06.
:58:06. > :58:14.and again. On the left of your her mouth, and I'm really surprised
:58:14. > :58:24.to see it at the top, Gorman, of those three leaders. You have to
:58:24. > :58:30.
:58:30. > :58:38.save an awful lot of energy, just five people deep. It is outstanding.
:58:38. > :58:48.Coming up to the feeding station again. Sometimes, they have spare
:58:48. > :58:59.
:58:59. > :59:06.gobbles end there. -- goggles in in at all, and takes the
:59:06. > :59:11.opportunity to carry on in a straight line. We were talking to
:59:12. > :59:17.the team manager yesterday, he said, they weren't sure whether she would
:59:17. > :59:23.come in. She is to the left of your shot, it looks like she may not
:59:23. > :59:29.come in. She may try to put in some acceleration to create a gap.
:59:29. > :59:38.may also try to swim away from the station. Anyone using her as their
:59:38. > :59:48.sight, may end up so in a way from the feeding station -- swimming
:59:48. > :59:54.away. They have to decide whether to swim
:59:54. > :00:04.right across the field to get a drink. It looks like she will go
:00:04. > :00:09.
:00:09. > :00:13.through. Mark Perry, the open water Performance Director. Looking
:00:13. > :00:23.comfortable. The how on earth do you find your
:00:23. > :00:36.
:00:36. > :00:46.bottle? They must take them out of the
:00:46. > :00:48.
:00:48. > :00:58.water. There is the south African swimmer, the last to qualify. 19
:00:58. > :01:16.
:01:16. > :01:23.years old. The final qualifier for qualify for the whole British team
:01:23. > :01:26.in Shanghai at World Championship when she won it. They picked the
:01:26. > :01:36.first 10 fastest swimmers in Shanghai to be part of the
:01:36. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:52.programme. They followed it up with a qualification at swim in Portugal.
:01:52. > :01:57.
:01:57. > :02:04.Keri-Anne was very close to that buoy. She seems to be the tightest
:02:04. > :02:14.to the market. Like running the London Marathon, if you run right
:02:14. > :02:15.
:02:15. > :02:25.on the line, but if you do not, you can end up doing nearly 27 miles.
:02:25. > :02:25.
:02:25. > :03:08.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:03:08. > :03:18.She does most of her training in the pool. There are some drills
:03:18. > :03:18.
:03:18. > :03:28.they do, just to get used to arching their back a little bit.
:03:28. > :03:34.They do some drills, using water polo strokes every length. It can
:03:34. > :03:37.hurt your neck muscles. You put your arms straight out, then you
:03:37. > :03:43.have to press almost with a straight arm, straight down, in
:03:43. > :03:50.order to lift your head up, rather than bending your elbow. It uses
:03:50. > :03:54.slightly different muscles than pool swimming. If you're doing most
:03:54. > :04:03.of your training in a clear, controlled environment, it is a
:04:03. > :04:13.slightly different way. Keri-Anne, looking pretty good. A yellow flag.
:04:13. > :04:24.
:04:24. > :04:30.It looks like someone hasn't gone will save them a huge amount of
:04:30. > :04:36.energy, but Keri-Anne likes clear water. No interference at all. That
:04:37. > :04:45.is what she has got. David, any news on that yellow flag? I didn't
:04:45. > :04:52.see who it was for. The pack is still very compact, maybe five
:04:53. > :04:59.swimmers wide. I think it was for obstruction. Luckily, it was behind
:04:59. > :05:06.Keri-Anne. It is definitely looking as if Risztov has decided to stick
:05:06. > :05:11.with Keri-Anne, like a market in a football game. Keri-Anne looks
:05:11. > :05:17.unfazed, moving out to clear water again. They will be heading towards
:05:17. > :05:23.the arch to complete the split time. It has surprised me how wide the
:05:23. > :05:30.pack is. Usually three swimmers wide. It is a free-for-all at the
:05:30. > :05:39.moment. It certainly is. Gorman taking an interesting line weight
:05:39. > :05:47.over on this side. That is the Spanish swimmer. Look at that,
:05:47. > :05:52.really very wide. The timing bridge, there may be 100m away, they will
:05:52. > :05:58.have to go a bit more narrow. On the far side of that leading group
:05:59. > :06:08.is Keri-Anne. It is so tight. are coming to the front of the
:06:09. > :06:13.
:06:13. > :06:21.stands, coming round for their second lap. Gan from Malaysia.
:06:21. > :06:29.Again, the crowd is so big. Anderson, from America. She has
:06:29. > :06:33.made a bit of a move here. 20 years old, trains in Los Angeles. It
:06:33. > :06:39.looks like Anderson, she is quite new to open water swimming. She
:06:39. > :06:49.will go in first, in the second lap. That was quickly. I thought it was
:06:49. > :06:50.
:06:50. > :06:56.Gorman, but it is Anderson. We saw in the swimming pool, and American
:06:56. > :07:00.going very quickly, breaking the record almost for the 800m
:07:00. > :07:05.freestyle. First, it will be Anderson, second
:07:05. > :07:11.will be Keri-Anne Payne. Keri-Anne it is still in a reasonably good
:07:11. > :07:21.position. But I think Plan A was for her to be way out in front.
:07:21. > :07:21.
:07:21. > :07:31.Anderson, clearly, made a very big move there. Gray, one of the
:07:31. > :07:39.favourites at the start. It is pretty bunch. Graham, from Italy,
:07:39. > :07:49.she won the World Championships in the 2010. Keri-Anne won in 2009 and
:07:49. > :07:57.
:07:57. > :08:07.2011. 2009, 14 degrees, in Canada, the coldest it ever was. It was
:08:07. > :08:10.
:08:10. > :08:15.freezing and it did not suit Keri- Anne. A tough summer. This is a bit
:08:15. > :08:25.colder than a lot of open water swimmers are used to. But you can
:08:25. > :08:29.
:08:29. > :08:37.for slightly below the water temperature they will be swimming
:08:37. > :08:42.in. Here, it was expected to beat... That is Anderson. Here, it was
:08:42. > :08:49.expected to be 19 degrees. They would sit in the water for 20
:08:49. > :08:56.minutes at a time, to get their body used to the temperature. This
:08:56. > :09:01.is a little ominous. Keri-Anne up on the right, Risztov on the left.
:09:01. > :09:10.A little bit ominous. She has a very good finish. Still an awful
:09:10. > :09:18.long way to go. Just look at Risztov. We were talking with David,
:09:18. > :09:24.and the Brownlee brothers. We talked about their experience in
:09:24. > :09:34.the lake. They talked about being at the feet of somebody else,
:09:34. > :09:43.sometimes it is so dark you cannot see where the hands and feet are.
:09:43. > :09:49.You can feel bubbles, the closer they are to you. A curious fact,
:09:49. > :09:56.knowing where you are when you cannot see too much. Keri-Anne and
:09:56. > :10:06.Risztov will be tried to feel around for the papal -- people in
:10:06. > :10:08.
:10:08. > :10:18.front. Garcia, the Spaniard, in the middle of that group. Gan, from
:10:18. > :10:22.
:10:22. > :10:28.Malaysia. Leading the third group. Anderson now been brought back into
:10:28. > :10:34.the pack, very interesting. She had made a little break at the start of
:10:34. > :10:40.that second lap. Then, getting caught back up again. It may not be
:10:40. > :10:49.the way that Keri-Anne likes the twos when it but she is toughing it
:10:49. > :10:57.out. On the track, you can do this. They do call this marathon swimming,
:10:57. > :11:03.because it is pretty much the same as marathon runners's times. But,
:11:03. > :11:13.it is difficult to get away from anyone. Anderson in the centre.
:11:13. > :11:23.
:11:23. > :11:33.She'd get underneath. -- She dipped underneath. Being on the hip of a
:11:33. > :11:34.
:11:34. > :11:41.summer -- swimmer. That is a better way -- place to be. That was an odd
:11:41. > :11:45.way to do it, David? She was bunched up in the middle.
:11:45. > :11:52.Normally you can flip up and roll over their legs, but she decided to
:11:52. > :11:58.go down. Definitely looking as if those three are leading the pack.
:11:58. > :12:07.Risztov, sticking to Keri-Anne, like Siamese twins.
:12:07. > :12:17.It was interesting, I am not sure I would choose to do that. There she
:12:17. > :12:23.
:12:23. > :12:32.was at the last drinks station, that is two laps now. We have been
:12:32. > :12:42.talking about this for the last few days. We have both done half
:12:42. > :12:44.
:12:44. > :12:49.marathons and stuff, and mind tucked one hour 35. In terms of
:12:49. > :12:59.whether you take gel or a drink, I wouldn't go two hours without
:12:59. > :13:03.
:13:03. > :13:07.anything. It is a tough one. They do have those little packets of gel
:13:07. > :13:12.stuffed up the side of their swimming suits. It will also take
:13:12. > :13:20.the taste of the pond a way. But then when the taste of the drink
:13:20. > :13:27.has gone, you get the taste back again. The water is reasonably
:13:28. > :13:37.fresh because of the heavy rain we have had. At this end of the course,
:13:38. > :13:39.
:13:39. > :13:48.we are at the far end, it is slightly warmer. As the river feeds
:13:48. > :13:52.this leg at the other end, it is fresher and colder water coming in.
:13:52. > :13:59.Talking to Mark Perry, and they said they will swim a little bit
:13:59. > :14:04.quicker up the other end of the leg because it is cold or! Sometimes in
:14:04. > :14:14.the swimming pool when you make the water a little bit colder, it does
:14:14. > :14:14.
:14:14. > :14:19.make sense. The confidence the team have, this is a quite tight open-
:14:19. > :14:25.water swimming team would the sport of their coaches and they measure
:14:25. > :14:29.the temperatures of the water. They measure the water flow and the
:14:29. > :14:37.temperature every work. They can pride themselves on being the best-
:14:37. > :14:42.prepared. Side by side, Keri-Anne and Eva Risztov. She is all over
:14:42. > :14:52.the show, Keri-Anne has a clear line and Eva Risztov is all over
:14:52. > :14:55.
:14:55. > :15:04.her. Referee, have a word, come on! She has got to swim straight.
:15:04. > :15:14.have Keri-Anne and Eva Risztov leading. And then you have Martina
:15:14. > :15:17.
:15:17. > :15:24.Grimaldi. We also have John Pechanova in there as well. --
:15:24. > :15:31.Joanna put in over. I after about 48 minutes, still an hour and 10 or
:15:31. > :15:35.so to go in this women's 10 kilometres open-water. Great
:15:35. > :15:40.Britain's Keri-Anne Payne is looking good, other swimmers trying
:15:40. > :15:50.to make breaks but have been drawn into the pack. But Keri-Anne at the
:15:50. > :15:51.
:15:51. > :15:58.She has shoes -- huge support. Hannah Miley, you swim all sorts of
:15:58. > :16:03.distances, would you give this a go? Don't tell my dad, you will
:16:03. > :16:08.give him ideas. It is not something I have ever done, but I have never
:16:08. > :16:14.tried. Whether I do it or not, depends on the occasion and what
:16:14. > :16:18.whether it is. One day and night, but I wouldn't be as good as Keri-
:16:18. > :16:26.Anne, it is too far for me. I would give it a shot if I was given the
:16:26. > :16:31.opportunity. And much do you admire her? Huge amounts. It takes she
:16:31. > :16:35.determination to swim around two hours on to a one-stroke. That is
:16:35. > :16:41.why I do the medley because I like burying it. She is such a huge
:16:41. > :16:45.inspiration. She is at the end of the competition and has had to stay
:16:45. > :16:50.focused will stop we finished on the Saturday and we have been able
:16:50. > :16:57.to relax and stay Folke -- watch a couple of the sports. But it is
:16:57. > :17:04.great for the team. She is staying in a different hotel now, and you
:17:04. > :17:13.guys can relax. You have watched a few other sports? Yes, I watched
:17:13. > :17:17.the BMX, also the water polo and watch Usain Bolt when his 100m. And
:17:17. > :17:21.Victoria Pendleton, and we have done our bit in the swimming pool
:17:21. > :17:27.and we are ready to support the rest of Team GB. It has been an
:17:27. > :17:31.amazing atmosphere. The support around the country is phenomenal.
:17:31. > :17:36.You will know your swimming really well, how different is its watching
:17:36. > :17:42.open water swim in and watching other people around Keri-Anne,
:17:42. > :17:49.Perhaps hitting her in the face and kicking air? The swimming pool is
:17:49. > :17:53.very structured. This is in the river. It is a bit of a bunfight,
:17:54. > :17:59.but they get involved and get in there and swim for two hours, but
:17:59. > :18:03.that is what they train for. Keri- Anne is such a nice person, one
:18:03. > :18:09.would imagine she isn't as good at the physical stuff and insemination
:18:09. > :18:15.things that go on? The closest thing you can get to that is the
:18:15. > :18:20.warm ups. They are quite brutal. She is such a lovely person to meet
:18:20. > :18:25.and to talk to, every athlete has their way of getting in the zones.
:18:25. > :18:35.When she is in the zone, she is doing her job. She is swimming her
:18:35. > :18:41.
:18:41. > :18:50.heart out. Great to talk to you lady and very good with the media,
:18:50. > :18:54.but do not mess with her! She is very tough in the water. One of the
:18:54. > :19:00.expressions is as tough as nails. You wouldn't want to mess with
:19:00. > :19:07.Keri-Anne, not at all. She trains very hard at Stockport With Sean
:19:07. > :19:17.Kelley. They really have been meticulous in the way they have
:19:17. > :19:19.
:19:19. > :19:24.been training to make sure she is ready for this. Keri-Anne is the
:19:24. > :19:29.spokesperson for the sport globally. Last year she was a woman up the
:19:29. > :19:39.year the swimming false start she is an icon, somebody who brings a
:19:39. > :19:42.
:19:43. > :19:47.great voice to the sport. Look at the people supporting this! Open
:19:48. > :19:56.water swim Inc is great fun, I have done some of it where I live, it is
:19:56. > :20:06.great. Get a wetsuit on, other weekend at 8:00am in the morning,
:20:06. > :20:12.
:20:12. > :20:22.you don't halfway up! Beautiful. -- the you don't half wake up. You can
:20:22. > :20:22.
:20:22. > :20:30.do breaststroke, you don't have to do racing. I think that was the
:20:30. > :20:37.Argentinian flag. Look at that. Found it. I think the fact it is
:20:38. > :20:42.bright pink it helps. I think Keri- Anne had some then. I am pleased,
:20:42. > :20:47.it is a long-distance. You think, I will keep on going and I will be
:20:47. > :20:52.fine. But if you make a mistake now, and then when you are 10 to 20
:20:52. > :20:57.minutes from the end, and you should have fed, it is too late.
:20:57. > :21:03.The American, Hayley Anderson swam right next to the pontoon, the
:21:03. > :21:07.feeding station. All these poles are sticking out and had to swim
:21:07. > :21:14.underneath all of them. Her coach was right at the end of it and she
:21:14. > :21:19.had an easy take. Coaches can coach them from the pontoon as they go
:21:19. > :21:25.past and have their drink. Hayley Anderson is quite young and you to
:21:25. > :21:32.the sport. She is determined. 20 years of age and decided it is open
:21:32. > :21:41.water. Even though she was the American College champion, at 500
:21:41. > :21:51.freestyle, 41 metres, pretty much, she was the champion. She said she
:21:51. > :22:12.
:22:12. > :22:18.swam through it almost just to at Trojan. Yes in Los Angeles,
:22:18. > :22:28.where the Olympics was. On the right hand side, swimming all the
:22:28. > :22:28.
:22:28. > :24:30.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:24:30. > :24:34.Risztov, 26, this year's European Championships, she took silver
:24:34. > :24:41.medal in the 1500m freestyle. She is trying to make a break. The
:24:41. > :24:46.coming up to the halfway in this women's 10,000 kilometres open
:24:46. > :24:54.water. Risztov is trying to stretch them out. She must have put in a
:24:54. > :25:04.big drive. That is the referee's whistle. I think they are doing it
:25:04. > :25:14.to the middle of the pack. It is the grave but at the back, somebody
:25:14. > :25:15.
:25:15. > :25:21.in the middle of the pack -- it is the grey boat.
:25:21. > :25:31.Risztov just getting caught again. The summer at the bottom of
:25:31. > :25:34.
:25:34. > :25:44.Anderson, -- Risztov, is Anderson, working out which way to go.
:25:44. > :25:49.
:25:49. > :25:58.can see the referee, holding up a cannot see it, which is a bit
:25:58. > :26:06.disappointing. It looks like Eva Risztov has made the move and now
:26:06. > :26:12.she is being covered by Hayley Anderson of the USA. Still
:26:12. > :26:22.difficult to see, Angela Maurer is in there. Angela Maurer has
:26:22. > :26:23.