BBC One: Day 13: 11.30-13.00 Olympics

the beach volleyball. That is the call of duty. I was calling my wife

saying I was going over to watch the final of the beach volleyball.

I hope she gave you short shrift. We have been waiting four years for

these Olympics to start and now there is just four Bay's lead for

our athletes. It has been incredible with 22 gold medals, 13

silver medals and 13 bronze medals. This morning all the top will be

about whether our open waters were met mermaid can add to that medal

haul. -- hour open waters were met Come on. All the British swimmers

are doubts in Hyde Park to cheer her on, including her room-mate

Becky Adlington and her fiance. We are going to be live from the

Serpentine throughout the morning to keep you up-to-date with her

progress. It is all about girl power to date. At 4:30pm Nicola

Adams will be fighting for gold in the first ever women's boxing final.

Women are now competing in every single spot that men do, but it has

not always been a level playing field.

When the modern Olympic Games were revived in 1896, women were

perfectly welcome as spectators. At the turn of the century, British

women still had no automatic right to inherit property, no right to

divorce on the grounds of adultery and no right to vote. But on the

playing-fields of Victorian England the game was on and the gold was

equality. There were schools like Rodin, Cheltenham Ladies' College,

the North London Collegiate, they wanted to play Games like their

brothers. The girls played hockey, cricket and lacrosse and introduced

Games to the curriculum. They contributed to young women taking

part in the Olympic Games to date. As these girls became at women in

the 1890s they formed societies like the Ladies' Golf Union and the

Hockey Association of Scotland. Women were playing sport in public.

The corset was being loosened. In the Paris Games of 1900 for the

very first time they had a chance to shine. Admittedly only 2% of the

entrants were women and they were only allowed to compete in golf and

tennis, but the point was made. Women were beginning to make more

demands in the political arena. The last bastion was to be accepted in

the world of sport. They were not going to be invited in, so they had

to push their way forward. progressive trickle of Paris showed

little sign of becoming a flood. In say Louie in 19 oh for just six

women competed and it wasn't until 1912 and a female swimming events

were introduced. It would take a seismic event to rock the sporting

establishment and the world at large. The eruption of World War in

1914 proved a catalyst for social change. In England millions of

women were drafted into the workforce. From the Civil Service

to agriculture and even ship building. In a state of emergency

women had earned a new roll in society and sport was at the heart

of the action. Between 1918 and 1939 more than 150 women's football

teams were formed in Britain, some attracting massive support. They

were watched by thousands of people on Football Association grounds.

Women were doing athletics and swimming and all sports. Things had

changed irrevocably. There was no way back after that. But the

participation of women at the Olympics was still a rarity. Just

65 of the 2626 competitors in the post or Antwerp Games where women.

The Olympic movement has been forced to change, in the 20s in

particular. Women were looking for emancipation across the board, but

the Olympic movement was not quite ready for it. Less than a month

after British women finally gain voting equality, the 1928 Amsterdam

Olympic Games began featuring for the very first time five women's

athletics disciplines. His 16 year- old won the 100m to become the

first female Olympic track champion. Meanwhile, the 800m final got under

way in the heat of the Dutch summer. The focus of many was elsewhere.

The Daily Mail said there were sobbing girls, all the women

collapsed. It was a terrible sight. That is not troop. This was the

testimony of one finalist, American Florence McDonald. In the race we

did OK. But this collapsing business was a lot of nonsense.

Sport was controlled by men and men in certain parts of society and the

reaction to seeing women out in the sporting arena was, this is not

ladylike. It was much more about that then it was about worrying

about the health of the ladies, that was a red herring. The IOC

decreed women should not run such distances and were banned from

competing beyond 200m until the Rome Olympics of 1960. The Olympics

superstars of the 1930s were lauded for their physicality and treatment,

rather than their novelty and the Americans were setting the pace.

There was a double gold medallist, an imperious presence on the track.

The first woman to swim the 100m freestyle in under one minute, and

the Supreme Helen Stephens, never beaten over any sprint distance.

Then in 1939 the world went dark again. The second world war not

only changed the course of history, but also the cause of women's lives.

In emergency they had led the way and post-war they wanted to

maintain a sense of responsibility. In 1948 a 38 year-old mother of two

came to embody that ethos. Fanny black as coal and had spent the

Second World War in Nazi-occupied Holland breaking six track world

records. But her arrival at the London Games had a mixed response.

She was criticised and receive letters say she should not leave

her children. She had a hard time in being accepted. The critics soon

revised their views as the so- called Flying housewife stormed to

gold in four of the nine women's events. And there was one last

surprise. When her third child was born in 1949 it became clear that

Fanny had competed in London, now pregnant. 1940s austerity gave way

to 1950s prosperity and things were changing for Western women. In

America 35% of adult females were in employment by 1956 and that was

also the year of the first ever Australian Olympics. They

celebrated the free-spirited Dawn Fraser. I spoke my mind and I do

not do anything that I do not want to do. The working-class Fraser

proved that sport could be for all. Governing bodies, institutions,

management, that was different. Men still dominated the idea see who

would not have a female member until 1981 and there was a lost

generation of sports women. Diane lead there was a great example of

how women missed out on being a Olympians as a result of the 1928

ban. She was the first women in the world to run under five minutes for

the mile. She did that at the same time as Roger Bannister breaking

the four-minute mile, and yet he has heard of her? By the 1960s

times were changing. It was not just about sex, drugs and rock and

roll, this was the era of demonstration, of civil unrest and

of women's lib. The advent of the contraceptive Pill meant that women

could control their own fertility and therefore their own destiny. As

feminism a forged forward, so too did British sportswoman on the

Olympic stage. First it was a teenage Corporation clerk from

Huddersfield. I was 19 and 16 days when I went there. To me it was a

bit of a dream. I never thought about winning. But I never thought

about losing, I just wanted to do my best. Her best was good enough

for gold and the world record. I came back Huddersfield had a

civic reception for me. There were ladies crying. I could not believe

how much it meant to other people. You do not realise it at the time

when you are breaking down these barriers, but as you look back you

realise we were doing something right at the time. She was not the

only focus in 1960. A fellow Yorkshire woman took silver in the

100m and a bronze in the 200m. To Tokyo in 1964 for the press she was

the plucky outsider to claim the first athletics gold medal ever won

by a British woman, Ann Packer. It she was the media's and a dog story,

Mary Rand represented a different obsession. She was the perfect

combination of power and beauty and became the first woman to leap over

22 feet. A beautiful jump. It is the first 22 fighter ever by a

woman. She was the ideal subject for the burgeoning tabloid

newspapers. When she found a celebrity admirer in 1965, her pop

culture credentials were complete. I understand Mick Jagger was asked

if he could take someone on a date and he would he take? He said meat.

Then you see black and white footage of the Sixties and you

think, I was part of that. These golden girls were genuine pioneers

for a female athletes and they had a huge profile driving TV audiences

and newspaper circulation and they were also popular. Anita lawns

Berra became the first woman to be voted sportswoman personality Of

the Year in 1962. There was a growing appetite for women's sport,

but the battle now was to be taken seriously. In this battle ground

there was no greater Warrior and Billie-Jean King. She had already

won 10 Grand Slam singles titles won in 1973 she took on former

Wimbledon champion in the so-called Battle of the sexes. 50 million

people saw her win the battle. It connected women's sport to women's

rights and sport was affecting society it. I wanted to change

people's attitudes were back match. I wanted us never to look back

after that. I wanted girls to believe in themselves. As for the

golden girl generation, Mary Peters She was a big part of the team. You

did not think of her as a woman, she was a great athlete.

Montreal in 1976, women's handball, rowing and basketball were added to

the Olympic programme, and a woman achieved the impossible -

perfection. There it is, ten! Olympic history for Nadia Comaneci.

By the 1980s, women were reading the news and they were the news.

The dramas of the female players on the Olympic stage were just as

compelling. The rivalry of Fatima Whitbread and Tessa Sanderson. The

acrimony of Zola Budd and Mary Decker. And the incredible exploits

of Florence Griffith join us. After nearly a century of Olympic

competition, this was also the decade that finally delivered the

holy grail for female athletes, the marathon. By then, you already had

great marathon runners. It was not as though they could argue that

standard was not very good. It was very, very good. No 90,000 people

greeted the victory in Los Angeles, a win that was nearly 100 years in

the making. By the 1990s, sport was big business. Advertising,

sponsorship, marketing or meant that your body was your brand, and

for women in particular, that meant that what it looked like was just

as important as what it could do. Women and women in sport are judged

on how they look. It is not right. We only have to look at the

magazine covers to see what type of women make it on the front cover.

We are happy to have your on somewhere on page 108, but that

body image is not quite fra from cover. 90 nature foresaw the first

woman from an Islamic nation win an Olympic medal. This is a gold from

Morocco. Since then, there has been slow evolution, rather than rapid

revolution. The inclusion of female athletes from Saudi Arabia, Brunei

and Qatar for the first time in London is a positive step. But

several Muslim countries still repressed sporting participation

for women at home. The inclusion of women's boxing in London offers

parity, in sporting terms, with men. It has been a long road to Olympic

equality. 42% of competitors in Beijing were women. London is

hoping for the magic 50. By have already seen athletics change in my

lifetime. And I am now seeing the opportunities that are available

for women, if they choose to go down that route, if they choose a

life in sport. And that is a great thing. We men have made great

strides in society, particularly in the Olympic Games, but there is

still a long way to go, particularly as coaches and on the

governing bodies and the international federations. These

are the places where women have to appear, so that they can make much

more progress. By the end of these games, the chances are that the

British medal haul will have been dominated by women. And what will

matter to them is and not their gender or their parents, but purely

quality of their performance. And that is a positive and powerful

message not just two women in the pool, on the track or in the saddle,

but two women in every environment. What a remarkable piece that was.

Clare is at the water's edge at the Serpentine, so we can talk about

this more. I am sure lots of younger viewers especially,

watching that piece, will be surprised at what you were saying.

For me, on a global scale, the moment of this Games was Sarah

Akhtar, when she was running down the final 100m in the 800m heats.

We have talked about a legacy of these games for British sport, but

what do you think this does for the youngsters in Saudi Arabia that we

have been watching her run-down that final straight? De point I was

making in that feature was that sport is not in isolation from the

rest of life. It is part of a wider movement. It played its part in the

early 20th century and is playing its part now in the early 21st

century, when you have a broad range of women doing so many

different sports and being seen out here being allowed to be determined

and competitive and being allowed to sweat. Sarah Akhtar, that was a

huge step forward, and I hope it makes a real difference to the

education of women in the Middle East and their access to sports

facilities. And that is just the beginning. I hope we see, through

the Olympic movement, things changing over the next decades.

my cultural perspective, the men to be getting behind the women and

cheering them on and go the extra distance, you only have to think

back to Katherine Grainger and her story of trying and trying to get

that gold and how everybody was willing every ounce of energy for

her to get that gold. For me, Katherine Grainger is the

inspiration of these Olympic Games. I know it is disingenuous to pick

just one, but by inspiration, I mean, what are you touched by that

you feel you can emulate in your own walk of life? That message of

if at first you don't succeed, try and try again and eventually you

will succeed. Katherine Grainger is so still and strong. I love the

energy around her. She is such a positive force in that team. The

rest of the British athletes look up to her and the fact that she

does not ever get to down when things are going wrong. You know

how broken she was inside, but she turns back into positive energy and

wins the race. She is almost so serene and gracious in victory. For

me, she would be my nomination for carrying the flag and the closing

ceremony. Many deserve to be nominated, but her determination to

overcome any sense of failure was incredible. I talked to him thought

about this, and his attitude to failure was interesting. He said,

you have to be unafraid to fail. Know what failure is, but don't be

afraid of it. It is a strong message for all of us. When you

look at the British rowing team on the women's side, they had three

golds, nothing had a goal before. It would seem unheard-of, looking

at the races we have watched. Nicola Adams, this is an incredible

story. She is now into the boxing final, the first women's boxing

final. What were your thoughts when you heard that women's boxing would

be included? I were so thrilled in terms of equality. If you object to

women's boxing, you have to object to men's boxing as well. If you

don't like the idea of people are hitting each other, you have to be

equal in your dislike of it. But I think even people who were a little

unsure of women's boxing have watched it and been impressed at

the accuracy and technique. Ireland are going mad for Katie Taylor. She

is the biggest star in their Olympic team, and they expect her

to win gold in boxing. They are embracing it. I have met people who

are already beginning to tell me about her. I am going to the

women's boxing tonight and an excited to see what it is like.

age is no barrier. Mary King is a perfect example. Women have been

competing against men for some years in the equestrian, and are

arguably better riders. Absolutely. If you look across the years at the

iconic figures in equestrian sport, Lucinda Green, Mary King, 51 and a

mother at two. She came back from a broken neck. If anybody has ever

said to lurk, you shouldn't be doing this, she has politely said,

I think you will find I should and I can. She was part of the silver

when in the Olympic team and is set on competing in Rio in four years'

time. It is lovely to see the range. I go back to the point about

inspiration. You need to see people who are like you. For women over 50,

Mary King is the one they looked too. They can say, if she can do it,

I can. I am for anybody with any kind of stomach problems or born

with a collapsed lung, you would look at Laura Trott for inspiration.

What a story she has. Amazing. During her interviews afterwards,

she said, I have just got used to the fact that I've thrown up all

the time. I just get on with it. If you do have health problems or you

have something that is considered by others to be distasteful, you

just get on with it. You throw up in public and get on with it. That

is what she does, and she is amazing. It is her success that we

celebrate. And Jess Ennis, the biggest star of all, the face of

London 2012. With all of that attention around her, to perform

the way she did from the word go, to set personal bests, to break

Olympic records, she has performed stunningly well and is a mental and

physical example to everyone. said at the start, I am sure lots

of younger viewers will be thinking, why have women not always been

involved? It is a good point. Keri- Anne Payne will be going off the

pontoon behind Clare in about five minutes. When the Beijing silver

medallist was asked if she was bothered about what lurks beneath

the waters of Hyde Park, her reply was "it is nothing compared to the

dead dogs of China or the jellyfish off Melbourne". But maybe she

should keep an ear out for a ticking crocodile, because the 28

acre lake is the setting for J M Barrie's prequel to Peter Pan's

adventures in Never Land. Keri-Anne Payne will certainly be hoping for

a fairy-tale ending to her Olympic dream.

It is all about who is best on the day, who makes the right choices at

the right time. People can tell me a million times that I have the

gold medal. I don't. I wish it was as easy as that. I have to make

sure I am still on that pontoon, about to dive in, and I am happy

with the training and preparation I have done. I know I am going to

give it all I have got. And it is gold to Keri-Anne Payne of Great

Britain. Last season took more out of me than I realised. I sound

young and 24, but I have been doing this since I was 12. That is 12

years of distance training on my body, and it took its toll on me

last season. I had a few niggles and a back injury, which took a

while to get over. Then I had a kidney infection after trials. But

what gets me over that is having the great support I have got. For

me, open water, it has been incredible how much it has grown

over the last four years. If I can just say I have inspired one or two

people to get into water and try it out, get a family to get involved

And Keri-Anne is going to take silver! What a race that was.

expecting the unexpected. Nobody seems to like to lead, so it always

falls on me, which suits me. On the day, I will probably have to focus

on what I need to do. I will just soak up the atmosphere and the

cheering. I know most of it will be for me, hopefully, if there are

lots of Union Jacks, and do my best. Well, the Brownlee brothers had

success in the Serpentine as their first leg of their gold and bronze

triathlon. But this event is a bit longer. 10 kilometres. In old money,

it is six miles and 376 yards. Clare is at a pontoon with Beijing

behind us as Keri-Anne Payne gets a huge roar from the crowd. The

British supporters are all around Hyde Park. We have the perfect

David Davies has just set, I have got goose bumps. It is amazing. The

crowd went mental. There are Union Jacks everywhere. The sun is

boiling today. I can't believe I am in the UK. It is great to be

involved. The air are 25 swimmers. Keri-Anne was drawn 15, meaning she

starts in the middle of the pack. It is a lottery at the start. You

get a designated place on the pontoon, where your number is. Even

though it is 10k, she can go out quick and get to the front of the

pack. That is where you have got to be, so you are in nice, clean water.

Then you get into the race. long now till they dive into the

waters of the Serpentine. It will take around two hours to complete

this swim. mashed right in the centre, dear me.

I would not like to be at the back. Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain

has a very clear tactic. With 600 metres to the first boy, she is

going for it. Absolutely. Her tactic is to get out to the front,

to take the race. She will have certain periods in the race where

she will try to break away. She said in her interview, expect the

unexpected. For more, and what you think is happening from the pre-

through the competitors with you. Another point about the conditions,

it is flat, still, calm. The only waves are coming from the boats

behind. What is interesting is it will favour pool swimmers. Just

seeing Risztov. A very good reputation. Or, at a very bad

reputation of getting yellow card us. You're not allowed to impede

swimmers. She was very close to Keri-Anne. Very important, this

first buoy. Look at that, Keri-Anne, leading on the righthand side.

Going with her, Risztov of Hungary. And, on the left-hand side,

interesting. It is a narrow course, so they won't be too far away from

each other. In that group, it is hard to see. They all have white

hats. What will be interesting, staying at the hips of your

competitor, of the swimmer who is leading, it is a better place than

being behind them, the drafting idea, holding the water, to the

slightly the right or left. He might notice some swimmers getting

into that position. Risztov was in that position but she has moved up

with Keri-Anne Payne. In that the rest of the pack, we will try to

on to Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain. This is a very normal

tactic. It is, to go out as hard as you can. She will try to push that

first 500m, then settle into a comfortable pace. She has gone off

very quickly, a little bit of clear water, I am surprised at that.

quite interesting, this is her tactic. I am surprised that Risztov

is going with her. There aren't many breakaways. That is the start

again, a replay. All doing pretty good dives. Keri-Anne looked very

good. A beautiful dive. Swimming Paul style. -- pool style. We have

been talking with the coaches, about the turn tactics. If you go

into return, in a big group, because of the fact you have to

turn sharply, someone in the group but on the side, can lose out an

awful lot. What will happen is, the Leeds

swimmer will get as tight as they can to the buoy. At the top of the

picture, they are starting to make a move. There is a lead in. If you

see that purport enough to bring -- purple inner tubing. A lead-in buoy.

If the first goes in, what usually happens is, the others, if they are

in a bunch, they have to go single FA because it is easier to get

around it rather than do a wide angle. So then a line-up more going

into the buoy. You can have a five swimmers in about six metres. Keri-

Anne, this is where she will make a move. She knows that the field

world string out a bit. If she kicks in with a burst of energy,

she can leave some people behind, a big tactic on the turn, to make the

most of it to leave the field. And it seems to have worked. We will

have to look with our binoculars. I think it is Keri-Anne to the left.

Risztov for Hungary. Keri-Anne having a little luck. Look at the

turn again. Risztov going in first, but Keri-Anne gaining two metres.

Those swimmers are in a line behind her. Elbows everywhere. Stringing

out. That is not just turn tactics, but

also a swimming speed. Keri-Anne's tactics, 500m, get out there and

make sure you were in the league, she does like the clear water. --

in the lead. Then, find an even pace. Then, she tends to pick it up

and keep applying pressure, every 1,000m, keep on applying the

pressure. So when she gets to the finish, she has lost as many people

as possible. She does have a good sprint finish, but hopefully there

aren't that many people to race into that sprint finish.

STUDIO: Keri-Anne Payne has the Olympics foremost in her mind, but

in September she gets married. Behind the scenes, this must be

added? It is difficult. A funny feeling. When I competed on the

first day of the Olympics, I was so confident and in control that I

would swim well. Stepping out, was such an exciting feeling. But here,

it is completely uncontrolled, really emotional. Thinking about

all of the wrong things, all of the psychology lessons are out of the

window now! Yes, I now know what my parents had to go through, watching

me. When did you last speak to Keri-Anne? Five I spoke to her last

night. And I got a text this morning, saying, remember your

suncream! She is looking after meet all of the time. It shows me she is

happy and confident. This is the environment she revels in, that

happy, family atmosphere, the sun shining, almost like she is naked

back in South Africa. The support here, the crowds will be unreal.

will almost be like a Mexican wave with people cheering. That is one

of the things she thought about in her preparation, not to get over-

excited. Just to keep their tour calm -- keep it all calm. She has

had such a great team, to help her know where all of the blind spots

are, where it would be sunny. Fingers crossed, everything is in

place. It takes one elbow or fist to his throat it off course. When

you say, thinking about the wrong things, that's the sort of things,

that somebody could damage her chance? There are so many variables,

we don't know what will happen. She is the one who will be focused, her

mind on the job, she will let me worry about that. I hope you can

enjoy it and she swims as well as she can. A really hope she wins.

This is an iconic venue, an amazing atmosphere, the weather is perfect.

I hope this is a shot in the arm for open water swimming. It is so

family-friendly. That is what Keri- Anne is most interested in,

creating that excitement around Anne, leading at the moment. You

could just see Gorman of Australia, in third place. At 26, she is not

bad at all. World Championships last year, she was 13th.

Commonwealth bronze medal. She will have a decent sprint at the end.

She has excellent coaches. And she anyone has done anything untoward.

You have a yellow card. You can have a straight red card. Two

yellow card so make a red card. It is up to the referee to decide

whether you have done something wrong. Going over the top of

somebody is clearly not allowed. Somebody got a straight red card

for dunking somebody. Somebody got a red card because their coach

through a water bottle at a summer. They are allowed up to five metres

long poles. On the end of that, you can put a drink, all sorts of stuff.

David, you have been in his position, and try to get stuff out

of those things, how easy is it? Many people are stopping on the

first lap. On the next few laps, it may be interesting where a couple

of summers come in at the same time, getting a drink, carbohydrates. You

have to do it very quickly, you try to flip on your back. Positions do

change around the feeding pontoon. It can be carnage at times. Going

back to that swimmer. What happened, you can just see it. It was in a

cup! What happened... They have to go around the right side of that

buoy. A coach hold the poll out, the swimmer missed it, he was

clearly annoyed, he pulled the poll in, through a water bottle, hit

another summer. And she was given a red card, because of her coach.

The referee will blow a whistle really allowed, he puts the number

on to the board, until you acknowledge the red or yellow card.

Risztov has had quite a few yellow people in the stands, then about

the same as a we are getting. They have gone behind the trees from the

commentary position. My binoculars on not much use at the moment.

About six swimmers are trying to get onto their heels. It is a bit

like cycling in the road race, the breakaway situation is the same.

You do not want to be left behind. Keri-Anne's turn, she will be

waiting to make another jump. Melissa Gorman, the Australian

there. It is not a very sharp turn, it is quite gentle. They will go

right around this one, so they probably won't go three deep.

I am getting the same as you at the moment. But what Adrian saying

about the race being compact. Going into the last turn, if you are

taking it is wide you are taking it sharp. I think Keri-Anne got a

round that one OK, but the longer the race stays like this the more

instances that there will be when they turn. The Serpentine in Hyde

Park is six laps, so they will be turning a lot so there could

potentially be a lot of incidents. She came out of that one OK. They

will be completing the first lap soon. I don't think Keri-Anne likes

to be amongst it. One of her tactics is to go out and get ahead

of them. So being in it is an uncomfortable position for her to

be in. I imagine she will try to get out of the pack and swim to the

left and right of it. We will have to see how it goes, it is a long

race. Just over two hours. We're just on Neely 18 minutes. Plenty of

time for this to pan out. They will be swearing at a pace. -- swimming.

I think Keri-Anne will be assessing this. She is at the top of your

picture with Melissa Gorman. The judges or keep an eye on it.

Melissa Gorman is losing track a bit. It is a bit murky in the

Serpentine, but apparently the water is a little bit fresh.

Melissa Gorman is a little bit off. She is not sticking with a rhythm.

They are coming in front of the stands, it is the first time they

have been round to this point again. They are just checking, for the

rest of a laps it will be easier. To the left there will be a bridge

coming up. They swim underneath that. They have transponders in

their wrists. Underneath the bridge there are chips in both wrists,

just in case which ever on goes over first. And that stops the

clock and they will get a split time. Angela Maurer is in the pack

as well. The leading group closest to us, Angela Gorman -- Melissa

Gorman of Australia, Keri-Anne Payne and also Hayley Anderson.

Marianna Lymperta, I am surprised she is so far back. She did get the

bronze in the World Championships. Martina Grimaldi is down the pack

as well. Stringing out a little bit more. It looks like it is Melissa

Gorman who has taken a bit of a lead. To the left of your shot, is

the American, Hayley Anderson. They are now trying to fight for

positions. Melissa Gorman it really has gone. Keri-Anne Payne still out

on her own. A lot of splash. That is a better picture. You have

Melissa Gorman leading and making a move. Melissa Gorman is a good

swimming pool summer, so she will be tough to beat. The first 20

minutes in this women's 10 kilometre open-water. Keri-Anne

Payne has started well. Leading from Australia is Melissa Gorman.

Then there is even a staff of hungry. Keri-Anne Payne has started

An hour and 40 minutes of swimming still to go. People behind us are

enjoying the Sunshine in the Olympic Park. The crowds are

pouring out of the Olympic Stadium. Earlier they had good reason to

cheer. Good news for Great Britain 4x4 relay team as they brought the

batten safely home to qualify for tomorrow's final. Martyn Rooney

anchored them as they finish second in their heat behind Trinidad &

Tobago stop a season's best of three minutes and 38 seconds. There

is more medal hopes. Every day, seriously we are in with a good

chance at Greenwich Park. Lizzie Greenwood used can give us news on

the individual Grand Prix freestyle. This is dressage. We understand

this is done to music? So it is quite quirky? This is what the

dressage fans have been waiting for. It is what dressage fans across the

world loved to see. Dressage to music, the top 18 riders from the

team competition including all three of Great Britain's gold

medalists. They have around six minutes to impress the judges. It

is also artistic impression. They can do their own routine and to

their own music. I know you like your ice-skating and it is a like

the free programme in ice-skating. That they can do whatever they want

to do. Instead of having taught all and Dean, we have Charlotte

Dujardin. She is favourite for individual jury -- glory.

Tuesday they got the first ever team gold in the dressage. Who are

the main competitors in this one? Quite a few, but 26 riders who

could try to wrestle the gold medal out of Charlotte's hands. But I

think she will do it. If not it could be one of the Dutch riders.

She is the world number one and is very good at dressage to music. And

of course, there is always a German threat. She has a horse called

Damon Hill. You can't also ruled out the triple Olympic gold-

medallist, and an 18-year-old horse. If they do not beat Charlotte, you

have Carl Hester, Charlotte's Mensa and trainer who Co owns her horse.

And Laura Bechtolsheimer, he will be riding her horse, it Mistral

Hojris. I do know there is some public knowledge Laura will be

riding to the Lion King and Carl Hester has a range of music brought

together a very patriotic theme. The Escape to victory. Apparently

big Ben chimes as they do their changes. And I think when Charlotte

goes down the sense a line though mock be a dry eye in the house. It

all starts at 12:30pm. You can see all of that on the red button, but

now we will hand back to Andrew Jameson and Adrian Moorhouse at the

Serpentine in hard-packed ASH Hyde Park. We understand there has been

back up. I don't know if it is a good idea to go and then allow the

others to catch up. We talk about Keri-Anne in the blue cap, making a

decent moves. She has a navigational radar. It is something

that is built in. This win in legs without goggles on. -- legs.

had to know where she was. David Davis had some issues and we will

have to hear what he says about that at some time. He had his

goggles blacked-out been training so he could swim blind, so to speak.

On the left, Keri-Anne Payne back in front. Why as Melissa Gorman

done that? She used a lot of energy to break the field. It did not look

as though they had caused her up, but it look like she had gone back

into the pack. It is still a very big pack? You are right. Sometimes

it swimmers do have places in the race to make a move. She is now

drifting over to the left. The other two, Keri-Anne on the right,

has a Laser sharp eye for the line. If I was Melissa Gorman I would be

sticking with her. David days if -- David Davies has done this in the

past, David? I am just seeing Melissa Gorman making a break after

the end of the first lap. Sometimes they do that because they don't

like being in the pack so they will go to the front for a bit, have

some clear water and then maybe fall back into the pack. But as

Adrian said he looked as though she got to the front but did not know

where she was going. Looked up a few times that. It is surprising

for Hyde Park because it is a compact course. Citing shouldn't be

in issue here. Keri-Anne looks comfortable. She is not panicking,

there is a long way to go. She is in clear water. She is swimming out

to the side of the pack, going to a very good rhythm, and clear water.

13th on the 800 freestyle and is a very good swimming pool summer. I

wouldn't be surprised if she tails off a little bit towards the second

half of this race. Pretty much 30 minutes gone and they will be

almost a quarter of the way through this race. So about 2,500 metres

done. 7,500 to go! The Hungarian at the top. We have Melissa Gorman in

the white hat of Australia and then closes to us, Keri-Anne Payne of

Great Britain. There Hungarian doesn't mind using her elbows now

and again. On the left of your her mouth, and I'm really surprised

to see it at the top, Gorman, of those three leaders. You have to

save an awful lot of energy, just five people deep. It is outstanding.

Coming up to the feeding station again. Sometimes, they have spare

gobbles end there. -- goggles in in at all, and takes the

opportunity to carry on in a straight line. We were talking to

the team manager yesterday, he said, they weren't sure whether she would

come in. She is to the left of your shot, it looks like she may not

come in. She may try to put in some acceleration to create a gap.

may also try to swim away from the station. Anyone using her as their

sight, may end up so in a way from the feeding station -- swimming

away. They have to decide whether to swim

right across the field to get a drink. It looks like she will go

through. Mark Perry, the open water Performance Director. Looking

comfortable. The how on earth do you find your

bottle? They must take them out of the

water. There is the south African swimmer, the last to qualify. 19

years old. The final qualifier for qualify for the whole British team

in Shanghai at World Championship when she won it. They picked the

first 10 fastest swimmers in Shanghai to be part of the

programme. They followed it up with a qualification at swim in Portugal.

Keri-Anne was very close to that buoy. She seems to be the tightest

to the market. Like running the London Marathon, if you run right

on the line, but if you do not, you can end up doing nearly 27 miles.

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She does most of her training in the pool. There are some drills

they do, just to get used to arching their back a little bit.

They do some drills, using water polo strokes every length. It can

hurt your neck muscles. You put your arms straight out, then you

have to press almost with a straight arm, straight down, in

order to lift your head up, rather than bending your elbow. It uses

slightly different muscles than pool swimming. If you're doing most

of your training in a clear, controlled environment, it is a

slightly different way. Keri-Anne, looking pretty good. A yellow flag.

It looks like someone hasn't gone will save them a huge amount of

energy, but Keri-Anne likes clear water. No interference at all. That

is what she has got. David, any news on that yellow flag? I didn't

see who it was for. The pack is still very compact, maybe five

swimmers wide. I think it was for obstruction. Luckily, it was behind

Keri-Anne. It is definitely looking as if Risztov has decided to stick

with Keri-Anne, like a market in a football game. Keri-Anne looks

unfazed, moving out to clear water again. They will be heading towards

the arch to complete the split time. It has surprised me how wide the

pack is. Usually three swimmers wide. It is a free-for-all at the

moment. It certainly is. Gorman taking an interesting line weight

over on this side. That is the Spanish swimmer. Look at that,

really very wide. The timing bridge, there may be 100m away, they will

have to go a bit more narrow. On the far side of that leading group

is Keri-Anne. It is so tight. are coming to the front of the

stands, coming round for their second lap. Gan from Malaysia.

Again, the crowd is so big. Anderson, from America. She has

made a bit of a move here. 20 years old, trains in Los Angeles. It

looks like Anderson, she is quite new to open water swimming. She

will go in first, in the second lap. That was quickly. I thought it was

Gorman, but it is Anderson. We saw in the swimming pool, and American

going very quickly, breaking the record almost for the 800m

freestyle. First, it will be Anderson, second

will be Keri-Anne Payne. Keri-Anne it is still in a reasonably good

position. But I think Plan A was for her to be way out in front.

Anderson, clearly, made a very big move there. Gray, one of the

favourites at the start. It is pretty bunch. Graham, from Italy,

she won the World Championships in the 2010. Keri-Anne won in 2009 and

2011. 2009, 14 degrees, in Canada, the coldest it ever was. It was

freezing and it did not suit Keri- Anne. A tough summer. This is a bit

colder than a lot of open water swimmers are used to. But you can

for slightly below the water temperature they will be swimming

in. Here, it was expected to beat... That is Anderson. Here, it was

expected to be 19 degrees. They would sit in the water for 20

minutes at a time, to get their body used to the temperature. This

is a little ominous. Keri-Anne up on the right, Risztov on the left.

A little bit ominous. She has a very good finish. Still an awful

long way to go. Just look at Risztov. We were talking with David,

and the Brownlee brothers. We talked about their experience in

the lake. They talked about being at the feet of somebody else,

sometimes it is so dark you cannot see where the hands and feet are.

You can feel bubbles, the closer they are to you. A curious fact,

knowing where you are when you cannot see too much. Keri-Anne and

Risztov will be tried to feel around for the papal -- people in

front. Garcia, the Spaniard, in the middle of that group. Gan, from

Malaysia. Leading the third group. Anderson now been brought back into

the pack, very interesting. She had made a little break at the start of

that second lap. Then, getting caught back up again. It may not be

the way that Keri-Anne likes the twos when it but she is toughing it

out. On the track, you can do this. They do call this marathon swimming,

because it is pretty much the same as marathon runners's times. But,

it is difficult to get away from anyone. Anderson in the centre.

She'd get underneath. -- She dipped underneath. Being on the hip of a

summer -- swimmer. That is a better way -- place to be. That was an odd

way to do it, David? She was bunched up in the middle.

Normally you can flip up and roll over their legs, but she decided to

go down. Definitely looking as if those three are leading the pack.

Risztov, sticking to Keri-Anne, like Siamese twins.

It was interesting, I am not sure I would choose to do that. There she

was at the last drinks station, that is two laps now. We have been

talking about this for the last few days. We have both done half

marathons and stuff, and mind tucked one hour 35. In terms of

whether you take gel or a drink, I wouldn't go two hours without

anything. It is a tough one. They do have those little packets of gel

stuffed up the side of their swimming suits. It will also take

the taste of the pond a way. But then when the taste of the drink

has gone, you get the taste back again. The water is reasonably

fresh because of the heavy rain we have had. At this end of the course,

we are at the far end, it is slightly warmer. As the river feeds

this leg at the other end, it is fresher and colder water coming in.

Talking to Mark Perry, and they said they will swim a little bit

quicker up the other end of the leg because it is cold or! Sometimes in

the swimming pool when you make the water a little bit colder, it does

make sense. The confidence the team have, this is a quite tight open-

water swimming team would the sport of their coaches and they measure

the temperatures of the water. They measure the water flow and the

temperature every work. They can pride themselves on being the best-

prepared. Side by side, Keri-Anne and Eva Risztov. She is all over

the show, Keri-Anne has a clear line and Eva Risztov is all over

her. Referee, have a word, come on! She has got to swim straight.

have Keri-Anne and Eva Risztov leading. And then you have Martina

Grimaldi. We also have John Pechanova in there as well. --

Joanna put in over. I after about 48 minutes, still an hour and 10 or

so to go in this women's 10 kilometres open-water. Great

Britain's Keri-Anne Payne is looking good, other swimmers trying

to make breaks but have been drawn into the pack. But Keri-Anne at the

She has shoes -- huge support. Hannah Miley, you swim all sorts of

distances, would you give this a go? Don't tell my dad, you will

give him ideas. It is not something I have ever done, but I have never

tried. Whether I do it or not, depends on the occasion and what

whether it is. One day and night, but I wouldn't be as good as Keri-

Anne, it is too far for me. I would give it a shot if I was given the

opportunity. And much do you admire her? Huge amounts. It takes she

determination to swim around two hours on to a one-stroke. That is

why I do the medley because I like burying it. She is such a huge

inspiration. She is at the end of the competition and has had to stay

focused will stop we finished on the Saturday and we have been able

to relax and stay Folke -- watch a couple of the sports. But it is

great for the team. She is staying in a different hotel now, and you

guys can relax. You have watched a few other sports? Yes, I watched

the BMX, also the water polo and watch Usain Bolt when his 100m. And

Victoria Pendleton, and we have done our bit in the swimming pool

and we are ready to support the rest of Team GB. It has been an

amazing atmosphere. The support around the country is phenomenal.

You will know your swimming really well, how different is its watching

open water swim in and watching other people around Keri-Anne,

Perhaps hitting her in the face and kicking air? The swimming pool is

very structured. This is in the river. It is a bit of a bunfight,

but they get involved and get in there and swim for two hours, but

that is what they train for. Keri- Anne is such a nice person, one

would imagine she isn't as good at the physical stuff and insemination

things that go on? The closest thing you can get to that is the

warm ups. They are quite brutal. She is such a lovely person to meet

and to talk to, every athlete has their way of getting in the zones.

When she is in the zone, she is doing her job. She is swimming her

heart out. Great to talk to you lady and very good with the media,

but do not mess with her! She is very tough in the water. One of the

expressions is as tough as nails. You wouldn't want to mess with

Keri-Anne, not at all. She trains very hard at Stockport With Sean

Kelley. They really have been meticulous in the way they have

been training to make sure she is ready for this. Keri-Anne is the

spokesperson for the sport globally. Last year she was a woman up the

year the swimming false start she is an icon, somebody who brings a

great voice to the sport. Look at the people supporting this! Open

water swim Inc is great fun, I have done some of it where I live, it is

great. Get a wetsuit on, other weekend at 8:00am in the morning,

you don't halfway up! Beautiful. -- the you don't half wake up. You can

do breaststroke, you don't have to do racing. I think that was the

Argentinian flag. Look at that. Found it. I think the fact it is

bright pink it helps. I think Keri- Anne had some then. I am pleased,

it is a long-distance. You think, I will keep on going and I will be

fine. But if you make a mistake now, and then when you are 10 to 20

minutes from the end, and you should have fed, it is too late.

The American, Hayley Anderson swam right next to the pontoon, the

feeding station. All these poles are sticking out and had to swim

underneath all of them. Her coach was right at the end of it and she

had an easy take. Coaches can coach them from the pontoon as they go

past and have their drink. Hayley Anderson is quite young and you to

the sport. She is determined. 20 years of age and decided it is open

water. Even though she was the American College champion, at 500

freestyle, 41 metres, pretty much, she was the champion. She said she

swam through it almost just to at Trojan. Yes in Los Angeles,

where the Olympics was. On the right hand side, swimming all the

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Risztov, 26, this year's European Championships, she took silver

medal in the 1500m freestyle. She is trying to make a break. The

coming up to the halfway in this women's 10,000 kilometres open

water. Risztov is trying to stretch them out. She must have put in a

big drive. That is the referee's whistle. I think they are doing it

to the middle of the pack. It is the grave but at the back, somebody

in the middle of the pack -- it is the grey boat.

Risztov just getting caught again. The summer at the bottom of

Anderson, -- Risztov, is Anderson, working out which way to go.

can see the referee, holding up a cannot see it, which is a bit

disappointing. It looks like Eva Risztov has made the move and now

she is being covered by Hayley Anderson of the USA. Still

difficult to see, Angela Maurer is in there. Angela Maurer has