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the beach volleyball. That is the call of duty. I was calling my wife | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
saying I was going over to watch the final of the beach volleyball. | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
I hope she gave you short shrift. We have been waiting four years for | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
these Olympics to start and now there is just four Bay's lead for | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
our athletes. It has been incredible with 22 gold medals, 13 | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
silver medals and 13 bronze medals. This morning all the top will be | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
about whether our open waters were met mermaid can add to that medal | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
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haul. -- hour open waters were met Come on. All the British swimmers | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
are doubts in Hyde Park to cheer her on, including her room-mate | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
Becky Adlington and her fiance. We are going to be live from the | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Serpentine throughout the morning to keep you up-to-date with her | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
progress. It is all about girl power to date. At 4:30pm Nicola | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Adams will be fighting for gold in the first ever women's boxing final. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Women are now competing in every single spot that men do, but it has | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
not always been a level playing field. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
When the modern Olympic Games were revived in 1896, women were | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
perfectly welcome as spectators. At the turn of the century, British | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
women still had no automatic right to inherit property, no right to | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
divorce on the grounds of adultery and no right to vote. But on the | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
playing-fields of Victorian England the game was on and the gold was | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
equality. There were schools like Rodin, Cheltenham Ladies' College, | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
the North London Collegiate, they wanted to play Games like their | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
brothers. The girls played hockey, cricket and lacrosse and introduced | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
Games to the curriculum. They contributed to young women taking | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
part in the Olympic Games to date. As these girls became at women in | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
the 1890s they formed societies like the Ladies' Golf Union and the | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
Hockey Association of Scotland. Women were playing sport in public. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
The corset was being loosened. In the Paris Games of 1900 for the | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
very first time they had a chance to shine. Admittedly only 2% of the | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
entrants were women and they were only allowed to compete in golf and | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
tennis, but the point was made. Women were beginning to make more | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
demands in the political arena. The last bastion was to be accepted in | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
the world of sport. They were not going to be invited in, so they had | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
to push their way forward. progressive trickle of Paris showed | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
little sign of becoming a flood. In say Louie in 19 oh for just six | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
women competed and it wasn't until 1912 and a female swimming events | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
were introduced. It would take a seismic event to rock the sporting | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
establishment and the world at large. The eruption of World War in | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
1914 proved a catalyst for social change. In England millions of | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
women were drafted into the workforce. From the Civil Service | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
to agriculture and even ship building. In a state of emergency | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
women had earned a new roll in society and sport was at the heart | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
of the action. Between 1918 and 1939 more than 150 women's football | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
teams were formed in Britain, some attracting massive support. They | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
were watched by thousands of people on Football Association grounds. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
Women were doing athletics and swimming and all sports. Things had | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
changed irrevocably. There was no way back after that. But the | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
participation of women at the Olympics was still a rarity. Just | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
65 of the 2626 competitors in the post or Antwerp Games where women. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
The Olympic movement has been forced to change, in the 20s in | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
particular. Women were looking for emancipation across the board, but | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
the Olympic movement was not quite ready for it. Less than a month | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
after British women finally gain voting equality, the 1928 Amsterdam | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Olympic Games began featuring for the very first time five women's | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
athletics disciplines. His 16 year- old won the 100m to become the | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
first female Olympic track champion. Meanwhile, the 800m final got under | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
way in the heat of the Dutch summer. The focus of many was elsewhere. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
The Daily Mail said there were sobbing girls, all the women | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
collapsed. It was a terrible sight. That is not troop. This was the | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
testimony of one finalist, American Florence McDonald. In the race we | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
did OK. But this collapsing business was a lot of nonsense. | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
Sport was controlled by men and men in certain parts of society and the | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
reaction to seeing women out in the sporting arena was, this is not | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
ladylike. It was much more about that then it was about worrying | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
about the health of the ladies, that was a red herring. The IOC | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
decreed women should not run such distances and were banned from | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
competing beyond 200m until the Rome Olympics of 1960. The Olympics | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
superstars of the 1930s were lauded for their physicality and treatment, | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
rather than their novelty and the Americans were setting the pace. | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
There was a double gold medallist, an imperious presence on the track. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
The first woman to swim the 100m freestyle in under one minute, and | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
the Supreme Helen Stephens, never beaten over any sprint distance. | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
Then in 1939 the world went dark again. The second world war not | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
only changed the course of history, but also the cause of women's lives. | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
In emergency they had led the way and post-war they wanted to | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
maintain a sense of responsibility. In 1948 a 38 year-old mother of two | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
came to embody that ethos. Fanny black as coal and had spent the | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
Second World War in Nazi-occupied Holland breaking six track world | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
records. But her arrival at the London Games had a mixed response. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
She was criticised and receive letters say she should not leave | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
her children. She had a hard time in being accepted. The critics soon | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
revised their views as the so- called Flying housewife stormed to | :07:32. | :07:40. | |
gold in four of the nine women's events. And there was one last | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
surprise. When her third child was born in 1949 it became clear that | :07:46. | :07:54. | |
Fanny had competed in London, now pregnant. 1940s austerity gave way | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
to 1950s prosperity and things were changing for Western women. In | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
America 35% of adult females were in employment by 1956 and that was | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
also the year of the first ever Australian Olympics. They | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
celebrated the free-spirited Dawn Fraser. I spoke my mind and I do | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
not do anything that I do not want to do. The working-class Fraser | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
proved that sport could be for all. Governing bodies, institutions, | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
management, that was different. Men still dominated the idea see who | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
would not have a female member until 1981 and there was a lost | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
generation of sports women. Diane lead there was a great example of | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
how women missed out on being a Olympians as a result of the 1928 | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
ban. She was the first women in the world to run under five minutes for | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
the mile. She did that at the same time as Roger Bannister breaking | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
the four-minute mile, and yet he has heard of her? By the 1960s | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
times were changing. It was not just about sex, drugs and rock and | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
roll, this was the era of demonstration, of civil unrest and | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
of women's lib. The advent of the contraceptive Pill meant that women | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
could control their own fertility and therefore their own destiny. As | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
feminism a forged forward, so too did British sportswoman on the | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
Olympic stage. First it was a teenage Corporation clerk from | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
Huddersfield. I was 19 and 16 days when I went there. To me it was a | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
bit of a dream. I never thought about winning. But I never thought | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
about losing, I just wanted to do my best. Her best was good enough | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
for gold and the world record. I came back Huddersfield had a | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
civic reception for me. There were ladies crying. I could not believe | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
how much it meant to other people. You do not realise it at the time | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
when you are breaking down these barriers, but as you look back you | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
realise we were doing something right at the time. She was not the | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
only focus in 1960. A fellow Yorkshire woman took silver in the | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
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100m and a bronze in the 200m. To Tokyo in 1964 for the press she was | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
the plucky outsider to claim the first athletics gold medal ever won | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
by a British woman, Ann Packer. It she was the media's and a dog story, | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Mary Rand represented a different obsession. She was the perfect | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
combination of power and beauty and became the first woman to leap over | :10:58. | :11:08. | |
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22 feet. A beautiful jump. It is the first 22 fighter ever by a | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
woman. She was the ideal subject for the burgeoning tabloid | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
newspapers. When she found a celebrity admirer in 1965, her pop | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
culture credentials were complete. I understand Mick Jagger was asked | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
if he could take someone on a date and he would he take? He said meat. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Then you see black and white footage of the Sixties and you | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
think, I was part of that. These golden girls were genuine pioneers | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
for a female athletes and they had a huge profile driving TV audiences | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
and newspaper circulation and they were also popular. Anita lawns | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
Berra became the first woman to be voted sportswoman personality Of | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
the Year in 1962. There was a growing appetite for women's sport, | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
but the battle now was to be taken seriously. In this battle ground | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
there was no greater Warrior and Billie-Jean King. She had already | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
won 10 Grand Slam singles titles won in 1973 she took on former | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
Wimbledon champion in the so-called Battle of the sexes. 50 million | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
people saw her win the battle. It connected women's sport to women's | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
rights and sport was affecting society it. I wanted to change | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
people's attitudes were back match. I wanted us never to look back | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
after that. I wanted girls to believe in themselves. As for the | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
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golden girl generation, Mary Peters She was a big part of the team. You | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
did not think of her as a woman, she was a great athlete. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
Montreal in 1976, women's handball, rowing and basketball were added to | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
the Olympic programme, and a woman achieved the impossible - | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
perfection. There it is, ten! Olympic history for Nadia Comaneci. | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
By the 1980s, women were reading the news and they were the news. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
The dramas of the female players on the Olympic stage were just as | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
compelling. The rivalry of Fatima Whitbread and Tessa Sanderson. The | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
acrimony of Zola Budd and Mary Decker. And the incredible exploits | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
of Florence Griffith join us. After nearly a century of Olympic | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
competition, this was also the decade that finally delivered the | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
holy grail for female athletes, the marathon. By then, you already had | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
great marathon runners. It was not as though they could argue that | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
standard was not very good. It was very, very good. No 90,000 people | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
greeted the victory in Los Angeles, a win that was nearly 100 years in | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
the making. By the 1990s, sport was big business. Advertising, | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
sponsorship, marketing or meant that your body was your brand, and | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
for women in particular, that meant that what it looked like was just | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
as important as what it could do. Women and women in sport are judged | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
on how they look. It is not right. We only have to look at the | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
magazine covers to see what type of women make it on the front cover. | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
We are happy to have your on somewhere on page 108, but that | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
body image is not quite fra from cover. 90 nature foresaw the first | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
woman from an Islamic nation win an Olympic medal. This is a gold from | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
Morocco. Since then, there has been slow evolution, rather than rapid | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
revolution. The inclusion of female athletes from Saudi Arabia, Brunei | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
and Qatar for the first time in London is a positive step. But | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
several Muslim countries still repressed sporting participation | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
for women at home. The inclusion of women's boxing in London offers | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
parity, in sporting terms, with men. It has been a long road to Olympic | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
equality. 42% of competitors in Beijing were women. London is | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
hoping for the magic 50. By have already seen athletics change in my | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
lifetime. And I am now seeing the opportunities that are available | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
for women, if they choose to go down that route, if they choose a | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
life in sport. And that is a great thing. We men have made great | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
strides in society, particularly in the Olympic Games, but there is | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
still a long way to go, particularly as coaches and on the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
governing bodies and the international federations. These | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
are the places where women have to appear, so that they can make much | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
more progress. By the end of these games, the chances are that the | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
British medal haul will have been dominated by women. And what will | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
matter to them is and not their gender or their parents, but purely | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
quality of their performance. And that is a positive and powerful | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
message not just two women in the pool, on the track or in the saddle, | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
but two women in every environment. What a remarkable piece that was. | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Clare is at the water's edge at the Serpentine, so we can talk about | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
this more. I am sure lots of younger viewers especially, | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
watching that piece, will be surprised at what you were saying. | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
For me, on a global scale, the moment of this Games was Sarah | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
Akhtar, when she was running down the final 100m in the 800m heats. | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
We have talked about a legacy of these games for British sport, but | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
what do you think this does for the youngsters in Saudi Arabia that we | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
have been watching her run-down that final straight? De point I was | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
making in that feature was that sport is not in isolation from the | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
rest of life. It is part of a wider movement. It played its part in the | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
early 20th century and is playing its part now in the early 21st | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
century, when you have a broad range of women doing so many | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
different sports and being seen out here being allowed to be determined | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
and competitive and being allowed to sweat. Sarah Akhtar, that was a | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
huge step forward, and I hope it makes a real difference to the | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
education of women in the Middle East and their access to sports | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
facilities. And that is just the beginning. I hope we see, through | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
the Olympic movement, things changing over the next decades. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
my cultural perspective, the men to be getting behind the women and | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
cheering them on and go the extra distance, you only have to think | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
back to Katherine Grainger and her story of trying and trying to get | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
that gold and how everybody was willing every ounce of energy for | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
her to get that gold. For me, Katherine Grainger is the | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
inspiration of these Olympic Games. I know it is disingenuous to pick | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
just one, but by inspiration, I mean, what are you touched by that | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
you feel you can emulate in your own walk of life? That message of | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
if at first you don't succeed, try and try again and eventually you | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
will succeed. Katherine Grainger is so still and strong. I love the | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
energy around her. She is such a positive force in that team. The | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
rest of the British athletes look up to her and the fact that she | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
does not ever get to down when things are going wrong. You know | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
how broken she was inside, but she turns back into positive energy and | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
wins the race. She is almost so serene and gracious in victory. For | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
me, she would be my nomination for carrying the flag and the closing | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
ceremony. Many deserve to be nominated, but her determination to | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
overcome any sense of failure was incredible. I talked to him thought | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
about this, and his attitude to failure was interesting. He said, | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
you have to be unafraid to fail. Know what failure is, but don't be | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
afraid of it. It is a strong message for all of us. When you | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
look at the British rowing team on the women's side, they had three | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
golds, nothing had a goal before. It would seem unheard-of, looking | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
at the races we have watched. Nicola Adams, this is an incredible | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
story. She is now into the boxing final, the first women's boxing | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
final. What were your thoughts when you heard that women's boxing would | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
be included? I were so thrilled in terms of equality. If you object to | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
women's boxing, you have to object to men's boxing as well. If you | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
don't like the idea of people are hitting each other, you have to be | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
equal in your dislike of it. But I think even people who were a little | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
unsure of women's boxing have watched it and been impressed at | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
the accuracy and technique. Ireland are going mad for Katie Taylor. She | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
is the biggest star in their Olympic team, and they expect her | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
to win gold in boxing. They are embracing it. I have met people who | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
are already beginning to tell me about her. I am going to the | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
women's boxing tonight and an excited to see what it is like. | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
age is no barrier. Mary King is a perfect example. Women have been | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
competing against men for some years in the equestrian, and are | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
arguably better riders. Absolutely. If you look across the years at the | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
iconic figures in equestrian sport, Lucinda Green, Mary King, 51 and a | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
mother at two. She came back from a broken neck. If anybody has ever | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
said to lurk, you shouldn't be doing this, she has politely said, | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
I think you will find I should and I can. She was part of the silver | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
when in the Olympic team and is set on competing in Rio in four years' | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
time. It is lovely to see the range. I go back to the point about | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
inspiration. You need to see people who are like you. For women over 50, | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
Mary King is the one they looked too. They can say, if she can do it, | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
I can. I am for anybody with any kind of stomach problems or born | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
with a collapsed lung, you would look at Laura Trott for inspiration. | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
What a story she has. Amazing. During her interviews afterwards, | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
she said, I have just got used to the fact that I've thrown up all | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
the time. I just get on with it. If you do have health problems or you | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
have something that is considered by others to be distasteful, you | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
just get on with it. You throw up in public and get on with it. That | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
is what she does, and she is amazing. It is her success that we | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
celebrate. And Jess Ennis, the biggest star of all, the face of | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
London 2012. With all of that attention around her, to perform | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
the way she did from the word go, to set personal bests, to break | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Olympic records, she has performed stunningly well and is a mental and | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
physical example to everyone. said at the start, I am sure lots | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
of younger viewers will be thinking, why have women not always been | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
involved? It is a good point. Keri- Anne Payne will be going off the | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
pontoon behind Clare in about five minutes. When the Beijing silver | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
medallist was asked if she was bothered about what lurks beneath | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
the waters of Hyde Park, her reply was "it is nothing compared to the | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
dead dogs of China or the jellyfish off Melbourne". But maybe she | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
should keep an ear out for a ticking crocodile, because the 28 | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
acre lake is the setting for J M Barrie's prequel to Peter Pan's | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
adventures in Never Land. Keri-Anne Payne will certainly be hoping for | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
a fairy-tale ending to her Olympic dream. | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
It is all about who is best on the day, who makes the right choices at | :23:28. | :23:37. | |
the right time. People can tell me a million times that I have the | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
gold medal. I don't. I wish it was as easy as that. I have to make | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
sure I am still on that pontoon, about to dive in, and I am happy | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
with the training and preparation I have done. I know I am going to | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
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give it all I have got. And it is gold to Keri-Anne Payne of Great | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
Britain. Last season took more out of me than I realised. I sound | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
young and 24, but I have been doing this since I was 12. That is 12 | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
years of distance training on my body, and it took its toll on me | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
last season. I had a few niggles and a back injury, which took a | :24:28. | :24:36. | |
while to get over. Then I had a kidney infection after trials. But | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
what gets me over that is having the great support I have got. For | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
me, open water, it has been incredible how much it has grown | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
over the last four years. If I can just say I have inspired one or two | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
people to get into water and try it out, get a family to get involved | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
:25:08. | :25:17. | ||
And Keri-Anne is going to take silver! What a race that was. | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
expecting the unexpected. Nobody seems to like to lead, so it always | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
falls on me, which suits me. On the day, I will probably have to focus | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
on what I need to do. I will just soak up the atmosphere and the | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
cheering. I know most of it will be for me, hopefully, if there are | :25:40. | :25:50. | |
lots of Union Jacks, and do my best. Well, the Brownlee brothers had | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
success in the Serpentine as their first leg of their gold and bronze | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
triathlon. But this event is a bit longer. 10 kilometres. In old money, | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
it is six miles and 376 yards. Clare is at a pontoon with Beijing | :26:06. | :26:16. | |
:26:16. | :26:18. | ||
behind us as Keri-Anne Payne gets a huge roar from the crowd. The | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
British supporters are all around Hyde Park. We have the perfect | :26:22. | :26:31. | |
David Davies has just set, I have got goose bumps. It is amazing. The | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
crowd went mental. There are Union Jacks everywhere. The sun is | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
boiling today. I can't believe I am in the UK. It is great to be | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
involved. The air are 25 swimmers. Keri-Anne was drawn 15, meaning she | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
starts in the middle of the pack. It is a lottery at the start. You | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
get a designated place on the pontoon, where your number is. Even | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
though it is 10k, she can go out quick and get to the front of the | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
pack. That is where you have got to be, so you are in nice, clean water. | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
Then you get into the race. long now till they dive into the | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
waters of the Serpentine. It will take around two hours to complete | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
:27:26. | :27:51. | ||
this swim. mashed right in the centre, dear me. | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
I would not like to be at the back. Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain | :27:56. | :28:03. | |
has a very clear tactic. With 600 metres to the first boy, she is | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
going for it. Absolutely. Her tactic is to get out to the front, | :28:08. | :28:18. | |
:28:18. | :28:27. | ||
to take the race. She will have certain periods in the race where | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
she will try to break away. She said in her interview, expect the | :28:32. | :28:41. | |
unexpected. For more, and what you think is happening from the pre- | :28:41. | :28:51. | |
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through the competitors with you. Another point about the conditions, | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
it is flat, still, calm. The only waves are coming from the boats | :29:09. | :29:19. | |
:29:19. | :29:23. | ||
behind. What is interesting is it will favour pool swimmers. Just | :29:23. | :29:30. | |
seeing Risztov. A very good reputation. Or, at a very bad | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
reputation of getting yellow card us. You're not allowed to impede | :29:35. | :29:44. | |
swimmers. She was very close to Keri-Anne. Very important, this | :29:44. | :29:53. | |
first buoy. Look at that, Keri-Anne, leading on the righthand side. | :29:53. | :30:01. | |
Going with her, Risztov of Hungary. And, on the left-hand side, | :30:01. | :30:07. | |
interesting. It is a narrow course, so they won't be too far away from | :30:07. | :30:15. | |
each other. In that group, it is hard to see. They all have white | :30:15. | :30:25. | |
:30:25. | :30:28. | ||
hats. What will be interesting, staying at the hips of your | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
competitor, of the swimmer who is leading, it is a better place than | :30:33. | :30:41. | |
being behind them, the drafting idea, holding the water, to the | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
slightly the right or left. He might notice some swimmers getting | :30:45. | :30:54. | |
into that position. Risztov was in that position but she has moved up | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
with Keri-Anne Payne. In that the rest of the pack, we will try to | :30:59. | :31:09. | |
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on to Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain. This is a very normal | :31:14. | :31:22. | |
tactic. It is, to go out as hard as you can. She will try to push that | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
first 500m, then settle into a comfortable pace. She has gone off | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
very quickly, a little bit of clear water, I am surprised at that. | :31:33. | :31:38. | |
quite interesting, this is her tactic. I am surprised that Risztov | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
is going with her. There aren't many breakaways. That is the start | :31:44. | :31:51. | |
again, a replay. All doing pretty good dives. Keri-Anne looked very | :31:51. | :32:01. | |
:32:01. | :32:06. | ||
good. A beautiful dive. Swimming Paul style. -- pool style. We have | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
been talking with the coaches, about the turn tactics. If you go | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
into return, in a big group, because of the fact you have to | :32:16. | :32:22. | |
turn sharply, someone in the group but on the side, can lose out an | :32:22. | :32:27. | |
awful lot. What will happen is, the Leeds | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
swimmer will get as tight as they can to the buoy. At the top of the | :32:33. | :32:42. | |
picture, they are starting to make a move. There is a lead in. If you | :32:42. | :32:52. | |
:32:52. | :32:59. | ||
see that purport enough to bring -- purple inner tubing. A lead-in buoy. | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
If the first goes in, what usually happens is, the others, if they are | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
in a bunch, they have to go single FA because it is easier to get | :33:08. | :33:16. | |
around it rather than do a wide angle. So then a line-up more going | :33:16. | :33:26. | |
:33:26. | :33:28. | ||
into the buoy. You can have a five swimmers in about six metres. Keri- | :33:28. | :33:33. | |
Anne, this is where she will make a move. She knows that the field | :33:33. | :33:41. | |
world string out a bit. If she kicks in with a burst of energy, | :33:41. | :33:47. | |
she can leave some people behind, a big tactic on the turn, to make the | :33:47. | :33:56. | |
most of it to leave the field. And it seems to have worked. We will | :33:56. | :34:06. | |
:34:06. | :34:08. | ||
have to look with our binoculars. I think it is Keri-Anne to the left. | :34:08. | :34:17. | |
Risztov for Hungary. Keri-Anne having a little luck. Look at the | :34:17. | :34:26. | |
turn again. Risztov going in first, but Keri-Anne gaining two metres. | :34:26. | :34:33. | |
Those swimmers are in a line behind her. Elbows everywhere. Stringing | :34:33. | :34:43. | |
:34:43. | :34:49. | ||
out. That is not just turn tactics, but | :34:49. | :34:59. | |
:34:59. | :35:02. | ||
also a swimming speed. Keri-Anne's tactics, 500m, get out there and | :35:02. | :35:08. | |
make sure you were in the league, she does like the clear water. -- | :35:08. | :35:18. | |
:35:18. | :35:18. | ||
in the lead. Then, find an even pace. Then, she tends to pick it up | :35:18. | :35:23. | |
and keep applying pressure, every 1,000m, keep on applying the | :35:23. | :35:28. | |
pressure. So when she gets to the finish, she has lost as many people | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
as possible. She does have a good sprint finish, but hopefully there | :35:33. | :35:42. | |
aren't that many people to race into that sprint finish. | :35:42. | :35:49. | |
STUDIO: Keri-Anne Payne has the Olympics foremost in her mind, but | :35:49. | :35:59. | |
:35:59. | :36:00. | ||
in September she gets married. Behind the scenes, this must be | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
added? It is difficult. A funny feeling. When I competed on the | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
first day of the Olympics, I was so confident and in control that I | :36:11. | :36:17. | |
would swim well. Stepping out, was such an exciting feeling. But here, | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
it is completely uncontrolled, really emotional. Thinking about | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
all of the wrong things, all of the psychology lessons are out of the | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
window now! Yes, I now know what my parents had to go through, watching | :36:32. | :36:38. | |
me. When did you last speak to Keri-Anne? Five I spoke to her last | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
night. And I got a text this morning, saying, remember your | :36:43. | :36:49. | |
suncream! She is looking after meet all of the time. It shows me she is | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
happy and confident. This is the environment she revels in, that | :36:53. | :36:59. | |
happy, family atmosphere, the sun shining, almost like she is naked | :36:59. | :37:05. | |
back in South Africa. The support here, the crowds will be unreal. | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
will almost be like a Mexican wave with people cheering. That is one | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
of the things she thought about in her preparation, not to get over- | :37:14. | :37:24. | |
:37:24. | :37:26. | ||
excited. Just to keep their tour calm -- keep it all calm. She has | :37:26. | :37:31. | |
had such a great team, to help her know where all of the blind spots | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
are, where it would be sunny. Fingers crossed, everything is in | :37:35. | :37:43. | |
place. It takes one elbow or fist to his throat it off course. When | :37:43. | :37:49. | |
you say, thinking about the wrong things, that's the sort of things, | :37:49. | :37:54. | |
that somebody could damage her chance? There are so many variables, | :37:54. | :38:01. | |
we don't know what will happen. She is the one who will be focused, her | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
mind on the job, she will let me worry about that. I hope you can | :38:06. | :38:12. | |
enjoy it and she swims as well as she can. A really hope she wins. | :38:12. | :38:17. | |
This is an iconic venue, an amazing atmosphere, the weather is perfect. | :38:17. | :38:24. | |
I hope this is a shot in the arm for open water swimming. It is so | :38:24. | :38:30. | |
family-friendly. That is what Keri- Anne is most interested in, | :38:30. | :38:40. | |
:38:40. | :38:46. | ||
creating that excitement around Anne, leading at the moment. You | :38:46. | :38:55. | |
could just see Gorman of Australia, in third place. At 26, she is not | :38:55. | :39:03. | |
bad at all. World Championships last year, she was 13th. | :39:03. | :39:13. | |
:39:13. | :39:14. | ||
Commonwealth bronze medal. She will have a decent sprint at the end. | :39:14. | :39:24. | |
:39:24. | :39:46. | ||
She has excellent coaches. And she anyone has done anything untoward. | :39:46. | :39:53. | |
You have a yellow card. You can have a straight red card. Two | :39:53. | :39:59. | |
yellow card so make a red card. It is up to the referee to decide | :39:59. | :40:05. | |
whether you have done something wrong. Going over the top of | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
somebody is clearly not allowed. Somebody got a straight red card | :40:09. | :40:16. | |
for dunking somebody. Somebody got a red card because their coach | :40:16. | :40:26. | |
:40:26. | :40:27. | ||
through a water bottle at a summer. They are allowed up to five metres | :40:27. | :40:37. | |
:40:37. | :40:38. | ||
long poles. On the end of that, you can put a drink, all sorts of stuff. | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
David, you have been in his position, and try to get stuff out | :40:42. | :40:51. | |
of those things, how easy is it? Many people are stopping on the | :40:51. | :40:56. | |
first lap. On the next few laps, it may be interesting where a couple | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
of summers come in at the same time, getting a drink, carbohydrates. You | :41:01. | :41:09. | |
have to do it very quickly, you try to flip on your back. Positions do | :41:09. | :41:16. | |
change around the feeding pontoon. It can be carnage at times. Going | :41:16. | :41:24. | |
back to that swimmer. What happened, you can just see it. It was in a | :41:24. | :41:34. | |
:41:34. | :41:38. | ||
cup! What happened... They have to go around the right side of that | :41:38. | :41:45. | |
buoy. A coach hold the poll out, the swimmer missed it, he was | :41:45. | :41:52. | |
clearly annoyed, he pulled the poll in, through a water bottle, hit | :41:52. | :42:02. | |
:42:02. | :42:08. | ||
another summer. And she was given a red card, because of her coach. | :42:08. | :42:15. | |
The referee will blow a whistle really allowed, he puts the number | :42:15. | :42:24. | |
on to the board, until you acknowledge the red or yellow card. | :42:24. | :42:34. | |
:42:34. | :42:38. | ||
Risztov has had quite a few yellow people in the stands, then about | :42:38. | :42:48. | |
:42:48. | :42:56. | ||
the same as a we are getting. They have gone behind the trees from the | :42:56. | :43:02. | |
commentary position. My binoculars on not much use at the moment. | :43:02. | :43:08. | |
About six swimmers are trying to get onto their heels. It is a bit | :43:08. | :43:13. | |
like cycling in the road race, the breakaway situation is the same. | :43:13. | :43:19. | |
You do not want to be left behind. Keri-Anne's turn, she will be | :43:19. | :43:29. | |
:43:29. | :43:29. | ||
waiting to make another jump. Melissa Gorman, the Australian | :43:29. | :43:39. | |
:43:39. | :43:40. | ||
there. It is not a very sharp turn, it is quite gentle. They will go | :43:40. | :43:49. | |
right around this one, so they probably won't go three deep. | :43:49. | :43:59. | |
:43:59. | :44:11. | ||
I am getting the same as you at the moment. But what Adrian saying | :44:11. | :44:19. | |
about the race being compact. Going into the last turn, if you are | :44:19. | :44:25. | |
taking it is wide you are taking it sharp. I think Keri-Anne got a | :44:25. | :44:30. | |
round that one OK, but the longer the race stays like this the more | :44:30. | :44:37. | |
instances that there will be when they turn. The Serpentine in Hyde | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
Park is six laps, so they will be turning a lot so there could | :44:40. | :44:47. | |
potentially be a lot of incidents. She came out of that one OK. They | :44:47. | :44:55. | |
will be completing the first lap soon. I don't think Keri-Anne likes | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
to be amongst it. One of her tactics is to go out and get ahead | :45:00. | :45:04. | |
of them. So being in it is an uncomfortable position for her to | :45:04. | :45:14. | |
:45:14. | :45:18. | ||
be in. I imagine she will try to get out of the pack and swim to the | :45:18. | :45:24. | |
left and right of it. We will have to see how it goes, it is a long | :45:24. | :45:34. | |
:45:34. | :45:34. | ||
race. Just over two hours. We're just on Neely 18 minutes. Plenty of | :45:34. | :45:44. | |
:45:44. | :45:47. | ||
time for this to pan out. They will be swearing at a pace. -- swimming. | :45:47. | :45:56. | |
I think Keri-Anne will be assessing this. She is at the top of your | :45:56. | :46:06. | |
:46:06. | :46:10. | ||
picture with Melissa Gorman. The judges or keep an eye on it. | :46:10. | :46:18. | |
Melissa Gorman is losing track a bit. It is a bit murky in the | :46:18. | :46:22. | |
Serpentine, but apparently the water is a little bit fresh. | :46:22. | :46:32. | |
:46:32. | :46:33. | ||
Melissa Gorman is a little bit off. She is not sticking with a rhythm. | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
They are coming in front of the stands, it is the first time they | :46:37. | :46:43. | |
have been round to this point again. They are just checking, for the | :46:43. | :46:48. | |
rest of a laps it will be easier. To the left there will be a bridge | :46:48. | :46:53. | |
coming up. They swim underneath that. They have transponders in | :46:54. | :46:59. | |
their wrists. Underneath the bridge there are chips in both wrists, | :46:59. | :47:09. | |
:47:09. | :47:10. | ||
just in case which ever on goes over first. And that stops the | :47:10. | :47:20. | |
:47:20. | :47:25. | ||
clock and they will get a split time. Angela Maurer is in the pack | :47:25. | :47:35. | |
:47:35. | :47:36. | ||
as well. The leading group closest to us, Angela Gorman -- Melissa | :47:36. | :47:46. | |
:47:46. | :47:51. | ||
Gorman of Australia, Keri-Anne Payne and also Hayley Anderson. | :47:51. | :47:58. | |
Marianna Lymperta, I am surprised she is so far back. She did get the | :47:58. | :48:05. | |
bronze in the World Championships. Martina Grimaldi is down the pack | :48:05. | :48:14. | |
as well. Stringing out a little bit more. It looks like it is Melissa | :48:14. | :48:22. | |
Gorman who has taken a bit of a lead. To the left of your shot, is | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
the American, Hayley Anderson. They are now trying to fight for | :48:27. | :48:36. | |
positions. Melissa Gorman it really has gone. Keri-Anne Payne still out | :48:36. | :48:46. | |
:48:46. | :48:55. | ||
on her own. A lot of splash. That is a better picture. You have | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
Melissa Gorman leading and making a move. Melissa Gorman is a good | :49:00. | :49:08. | |
swimming pool summer, so she will be tough to beat. The first 20 | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
minutes in this women's 10 kilometre open-water. Keri-Anne | :49:13. | :49:19. | |
Payne has started well. Leading from Australia is Melissa Gorman. | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
Then there is even a staff of hungry. Keri-Anne Payne has started | :49:23. | :49:33. | |
:49:33. | :49:38. | ||
An hour and 40 minutes of swimming still to go. People behind us are | :49:38. | :49:42. | |
enjoying the Sunshine in the Olympic Park. The crowds are | :49:42. | :49:47. | |
pouring out of the Olympic Stadium. Earlier they had good reason to | :49:47. | :49:53. | |
cheer. Good news for Great Britain 4x4 relay team as they brought the | :49:53. | :49:59. | |
batten safely home to qualify for tomorrow's final. Martyn Rooney | :49:59. | :50:06. | |
anchored them as they finish second in their heat behind Trinidad & | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
Tobago stop a season's best of three minutes and 38 seconds. There | :50:10. | :50:16. | |
is more medal hopes. Every day, seriously we are in with a good | :50:16. | :50:23. | |
chance at Greenwich Park. Lizzie Greenwood used can give us news on | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
the individual Grand Prix freestyle. This is dressage. We understand | :50:28. | :50:34. | |
this is done to music? So it is quite quirky? This is what the | :50:34. | :50:39. | |
dressage fans have been waiting for. It is what dressage fans across the | :50:39. | :50:45. | |
world loved to see. Dressage to music, the top 18 riders from the | :50:45. | :50:50. | |
team competition including all three of Great Britain's gold | :50:50. | :50:56. | |
medalists. They have around six minutes to impress the judges. It | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
is also artistic impression. They can do their own routine and to | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
their own music. I know you like your ice-skating and it is a like | :51:05. | :51:10. | |
the free programme in ice-skating. That they can do whatever they want | :51:10. | :51:20. | |
:51:20. | :51:20. | ||
to do. Instead of having taught all and Dean, we have Charlotte | :51:20. | :51:27. | |
Dujardin. She is favourite for individual jury -- glory. | :51:27. | :51:31. | |
Tuesday they got the first ever team gold in the dressage. Who are | :51:31. | :51:37. | |
the main competitors in this one? Quite a few, but 26 riders who | :51:37. | :51:42. | |
could try to wrestle the gold medal out of Charlotte's hands. But I | :51:42. | :51:50. | |
think she will do it. If not it could be one of the Dutch riders. | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
She is the world number one and is very good at dressage to music. And | :51:55. | :52:02. | |
of course, there is always a German threat. She has a horse called | :52:03. | :52:09. | |
Damon Hill. You can't also ruled out the triple Olympic gold- | :52:09. | :52:18. | |
medallist, and an 18-year-old horse. If they do not beat Charlotte, you | :52:18. | :52:28. | |
have Carl Hester, Charlotte's Mensa and trainer who Co owns her horse. | :52:28. | :52:32. | |
And Laura Bechtolsheimer, he will be riding her horse, it Mistral | :52:32. | :52:37. | |
Hojris. I do know there is some public knowledge Laura will be | :52:37. | :52:43. | |
riding to the Lion King and Carl Hester has a range of music brought | :52:43. | :52:49. | |
together a very patriotic theme. The Escape to victory. Apparently | :52:49. | :52:56. | |
big Ben chimes as they do their changes. And I think when Charlotte | :52:56. | :53:01. | |
goes down the sense a line though mock be a dry eye in the house. It | :53:01. | :53:09. | |
all starts at 12:30pm. You can see all of that on the red button, but | :53:09. | :53:14. | |
now we will hand back to Andrew Jameson and Adrian Moorhouse at the | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
Serpentine in hard-packed ASH Hyde Park. We understand there has been | :53:19. | :53:29. | |
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back up. I don't know if it is a good idea to go and then allow the | :53:52. | :54:02. | |
:54:02. | :54:05. | ||
others to catch up. We talk about Keri-Anne in the blue cap, making a | :54:05. | :54:11. | |
decent moves. She has a navigational radar. It is something | :54:11. | :54:21. | |
:54:21. | :54:29. | ||
that is built in. This win in legs without goggles on. -- legs. | :54:29. | :54:39. | |
had to know where she was. David Davis had some issues and we will | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
have to hear what he says about that at some time. He had his | :54:44. | :54:51. | |
goggles blacked-out been training so he could swim blind, so to speak. | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
On the left, Keri-Anne Payne back in front. Why as Melissa Gorman | :54:55. | :55:03. | |
done that? She used a lot of energy to break the field. It did not look | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
as though they had caused her up, but it look like she had gone back | :55:07. | :55:13. | |
into the pack. It is still a very big pack? You are right. Sometimes | :55:13. | :55:20. | |
it swimmers do have places in the race to make a move. She is now | :55:20. | :55:28. | |
drifting over to the left. The other two, Keri-Anne on the right, | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
has a Laser sharp eye for the line. If I was Melissa Gorman I would be | :55:33. | :55:42. | |
sticking with her. David days if -- David Davies has done this in the | :55:42. | :55:50. | |
past, David? I am just seeing Melissa Gorman making a break after | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
the end of the first lap. Sometimes they do that because they don't | :55:55. | :55:58. | |
like being in the pack so they will go to the front for a bit, have | :55:58. | :56:03. | |
some clear water and then maybe fall back into the pack. But as | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
Adrian said he looked as though she got to the front but did not know | :56:06. | :56:16. | |
where she was going. Looked up a few times that. It is surprising | :56:16. | :56:20. | |
for Hyde Park because it is a compact course. Citing shouldn't be | :56:20. | :56:26. | |
in issue here. Keri-Anne looks comfortable. She is not panicking, | :56:26. | :56:33. | |
there is a long way to go. She is in clear water. She is swimming out | :56:33. | :56:39. | |
to the side of the pack, going to a very good rhythm, and clear water. | :56:39. | :56:49. | |
:56:49. | :57:04. | ||
13th on the 800 freestyle and is a very good swimming pool summer. I | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
wouldn't be surprised if she tails off a little bit towards the second | :57:08. | :57:14. | |
half of this race. Pretty much 30 minutes gone and they will be | :57:14. | :57:21. | |
almost a quarter of the way through this race. So about 2,500 metres | :57:21. | :57:31. | |
:57:31. | :57:33. | ||
done. 7,500 to go! The Hungarian at the top. We have Melissa Gorman in | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
the white hat of Australia and then closes to us, Keri-Anne Payne of | :57:36. | :57:42. | |
Great Britain. There Hungarian doesn't mind using her elbows now | :57:42. | :57:52. | |
:57:52. | :58:06. | ||
and again. On the left of your her mouth, and I'm really surprised | :58:06. | :58:14. | |
to see it at the top, Gorman, of those three leaders. You have to | :58:14. | :58:24. | |
:58:24. | :58:30. | ||
save an awful lot of energy, just five people deep. It is outstanding. | :58:30. | :58:38. | |
Coming up to the feeding station again. Sometimes, they have spare | :58:38. | :58:48. | |
:58:48. | :58:59. | ||
gobbles end there. -- goggles in in at all, and takes the | :58:59. | :59:06. | |
opportunity to carry on in a straight line. We were talking to | :59:06. | :59:11. | |
the team manager yesterday, he said, they weren't sure whether she would | :59:12. | :59:17. | |
come in. She is to the left of your shot, it looks like she may not | :59:17. | :59:23. | |
come in. She may try to put in some acceleration to create a gap. | :59:23. | :59:29. | |
may also try to swim away from the station. Anyone using her as their | :59:29. | :59:38. | |
sight, may end up so in a way from the feeding station -- swimming | :59:38. | :59:48. | |
away. They have to decide whether to swim | :59:48. | :59:54. | |
right across the field to get a drink. It looks like she will go | :59:54. | :00:04. | |
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through. Mark Perry, the open water Performance Director. Looking | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
comfortable. The how on earth do you find your | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
:00:23. | :00:36. | ||
bottle? They must take them out of the | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
:00:46. | :00:48. | ||
water. There is the south African swimmer, the last to qualify. 19 | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
:00:58. | :01:16. | ||
years old. The final qualifier for qualify for the whole British team | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
in Shanghai at World Championship when she won it. They picked the | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
first 10 fastest swimmers in Shanghai to be part of the | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
:01:36. | :01:42. | ||
programme. They followed it up with a qualification at swim in Portugal. | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
:01:52. | :01:57. | ||
Keri-Anne was very close to that buoy. She seems to be the tightest | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
to the market. Like running the London Marathon, if you run right | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
:02:14. | :02:15. | ||
on the line, but if you do not, you can end up doing nearly 27 miles. | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
:02:25. | :02:25. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds | :02:25. | :03:08. | |
She does most of her training in the pool. There are some drills | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
:03:18. | :03:18. | ||
they do, just to get used to arching their back a little bit. | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
They do some drills, using water polo strokes every length. It can | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
hurt your neck muscles. You put your arms straight out, then you | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
have to press almost with a straight arm, straight down, in | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
order to lift your head up, rather than bending your elbow. It uses | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
slightly different muscles than pool swimming. If you're doing most | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
of your training in a clear, controlled environment, it is a | :03:54. | :04:03. | |
slightly different way. Keri-Anne, looking pretty good. A yellow flag. | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
:04:13. | :04:24. | ||
It looks like someone hasn't gone will save them a huge amount of | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
energy, but Keri-Anne likes clear water. No interference at all. That | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
is what she has got. David, any news on that yellow flag? I didn't | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
see who it was for. The pack is still very compact, maybe five | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
swimmers wide. I think it was for obstruction. Luckily, it was behind | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
Keri-Anne. It is definitely looking as if Risztov has decided to stick | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
with Keri-Anne, like a market in a football game. Keri-Anne looks | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
unfazed, moving out to clear water again. They will be heading towards | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
the arch to complete the split time. It has surprised me how wide the | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
pack is. Usually three swimmers wide. It is a free-for-all at the | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
moment. It certainly is. Gorman taking an interesting line weight | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
over on this side. That is the Spanish swimmer. Look at that, | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
really very wide. The timing bridge, there may be 100m away, they will | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
have to go a bit more narrow. On the far side of that leading group | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
is Keri-Anne. It is so tight. are coming to the front of the | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
:06:09. | :06:13. | ||
stands, coming round for their second lap. Gan from Malaysia. | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
Again, the crowd is so big. Anderson, from America. She has | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
made a bit of a move here. 20 years old, trains in Los Angeles. It | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
looks like Anderson, she is quite new to open water swimming. She | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
will go in first, in the second lap. That was quickly. I thought it was | :06:39. | :06:49. | |
:06:49. | :06:50. | ||
Gorman, but it is Anderson. We saw in the swimming pool, and American | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
going very quickly, breaking the record almost for the 800m | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
freestyle. First, it will be Anderson, second | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
will be Keri-Anne Payne. Keri-Anne it is still in a reasonably good | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
position. But I think Plan A was for her to be way out in front. | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
:07:21. | :07:21. | ||
Anderson, clearly, made a very big move there. Gray, one of the | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
favourites at the start. It is pretty bunch. Graham, from Italy, | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
she won the World Championships in the 2010. Keri-Anne won in 2009 and | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
:07:49. | :07:57. | ||
2011. 2009, 14 degrees, in Canada, the coldest it ever was. It was | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
:08:07. | :08:10. | ||
freezing and it did not suit Keri- Anne. A tough summer. This is a bit | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
colder than a lot of open water swimmers are used to. But you can | :08:15. | :08:25. | |
:08:25. | :08:29. | ||
for slightly below the water temperature they will be swimming | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
in. Here, it was expected to beat... That is Anderson. Here, it was | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
expected to be 19 degrees. They would sit in the water for 20 | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
minutes at a time, to get their body used to the temperature. This | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
is a little ominous. Keri-Anne up on the right, Risztov on the left. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
A little bit ominous. She has a very good finish. Still an awful | :09:01. | :09:10. | |
long way to go. Just look at Risztov. We were talking with David, | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
and the Brownlee brothers. We talked about their experience in | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
the lake. They talked about being at the feet of somebody else, | :09:24. | :09:34. | |
sometimes it is so dark you cannot see where the hands and feet are. | :09:34. | :09:43. | |
You can feel bubbles, the closer they are to you. A curious fact, | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
knowing where you are when you cannot see too much. Keri-Anne and | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
Risztov will be tried to feel around for the papal -- people in | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
:10:06. | :10:08. | ||
front. Garcia, the Spaniard, in the middle of that group. Gan, from | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
:10:18. | :10:22. | ||
Malaysia. Leading the third group. Anderson now been brought back into | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
the pack, very interesting. She had made a little break at the start of | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
that second lap. Then, getting caught back up again. It may not be | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
the way that Keri-Anne likes the twos when it but she is toughing it | :10:40. | :10:49. | |
out. On the track, you can do this. They do call this marathon swimming, | :10:49. | :10:57. | |
because it is pretty much the same as marathon runners's times. But, | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
it is difficult to get away from anyone. Anderson in the centre. | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
:11:13. | :11:23. | ||
She'd get underneath. -- She dipped underneath. Being on the hip of a | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
:11:33. | :11:34. | ||
summer -- swimmer. That is a better way -- place to be. That was an odd | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
way to do it, David? She was bunched up in the middle. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Normally you can flip up and roll over their legs, but she decided to | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
go down. Definitely looking as if those three are leading the pack. | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
Risztov, sticking to Keri-Anne, like Siamese twins. | :11:58. | :12:07. | |
It was interesting, I am not sure I would choose to do that. There she | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
:12:17. | :12:23. | ||
was at the last drinks station, that is two laps now. We have been | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
talking about this for the last few days. We have both done half | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
:12:42. | :12:44. | ||
marathons and stuff, and mind tucked one hour 35. In terms of | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
whether you take gel or a drink, I wouldn't go two hours without | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
:12:59. | :13:03. | ||
anything. It is a tough one. They do have those little packets of gel | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
stuffed up the side of their swimming suits. It will also take | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
the taste of the pond a way. But then when the taste of the drink | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
has gone, you get the taste back again. The water is reasonably | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
fresh because of the heavy rain we have had. At this end of the course, | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
:13:38. | :13:39. | ||
we are at the far end, it is slightly warmer. As the river feeds | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
this leg at the other end, it is fresher and colder water coming in. | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Talking to Mark Perry, and they said they will swim a little bit | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
quicker up the other end of the leg because it is cold or! Sometimes in | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
the swimming pool when you make the water a little bit colder, it does | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
:14:14. | :14:14. | ||
make sense. The confidence the team have, this is a quite tight open- | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
water swimming team would the sport of their coaches and they measure | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
the temperatures of the water. They measure the water flow and the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
temperature every work. They can pride themselves on being the best- | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
prepared. Side by side, Keri-Anne and Eva Risztov. She is all over | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
the show, Keri-Anne has a clear line and Eva Risztov is all over | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
:14:52. | :14:55. | ||
her. Referee, have a word, come on! She has got to swim straight. | :14:55. | :15:04. | |
have Keri-Anne and Eva Risztov leading. And then you have Martina | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
:15:14. | :15:17. | ||
Grimaldi. We also have John Pechanova in there as well. -- | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
Joanna put in over. I after about 48 minutes, still an hour and 10 or | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
so to go in this women's 10 kilometres open-water. Great | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Britain's Keri-Anne Payne is looking good, other swimmers trying | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
to make breaks but have been drawn into the pack. But Keri-Anne at the | :15:40. | :15:50. | |
:15:50. | :15:51. | ||
She has shoes -- huge support. Hannah Miley, you swim all sorts of | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
distances, would you give this a go? Don't tell my dad, you will | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
give him ideas. It is not something I have ever done, but I have never | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
tried. Whether I do it or not, depends on the occasion and what | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
whether it is. One day and night, but I wouldn't be as good as Keri- | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Anne, it is too far for me. I would give it a shot if I was given the | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
opportunity. And much do you admire her? Huge amounts. It takes she | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
determination to swim around two hours on to a one-stroke. That is | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
why I do the medley because I like burying it. She is such a huge | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
inspiration. She is at the end of the competition and has had to stay | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
focused will stop we finished on the Saturday and we have been able | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
to relax and stay Folke -- watch a couple of the sports. But it is | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
great for the team. She is staying in a different hotel now, and you | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
guys can relax. You have watched a few other sports? Yes, I watched | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
the BMX, also the water polo and watch Usain Bolt when his 100m. And | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Victoria Pendleton, and we have done our bit in the swimming pool | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
and we are ready to support the rest of Team GB. It has been an | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
amazing atmosphere. The support around the country is phenomenal. | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
You will know your swimming really well, how different is its watching | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
open water swim in and watching other people around Keri-Anne, | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
Perhaps hitting her in the face and kicking air? The swimming pool is | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
very structured. This is in the river. It is a bit of a bunfight, | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
but they get involved and get in there and swim for two hours, but | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
that is what they train for. Keri- Anne is such a nice person, one | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
would imagine she isn't as good at the physical stuff and insemination | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
things that go on? The closest thing you can get to that is the | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
warm ups. They are quite brutal. She is such a lovely person to meet | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
and to talk to, every athlete has their way of getting in the zones. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
When she is in the zone, she is doing her job. She is swimming her | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
:18:35. | :18:41. | ||
heart out. Great to talk to you lady and very good with the media, | :18:41. | :18:50. | |
but do not mess with her! She is very tough in the water. One of the | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
expressions is as tough as nails. You wouldn't want to mess with | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
Keri-Anne, not at all. She trains very hard at Stockport With Sean | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
Kelley. They really have been meticulous in the way they have | :19:07. | :19:17. | |
:19:17. | :19:19. | ||
been training to make sure she is ready for this. Keri-Anne is the | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
spokesperson for the sport globally. Last year she was a woman up the | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
year the swimming false start she is an icon, somebody who brings a | :19:29. | :19:39. | |
:19:39. | :19:42. | ||
great voice to the sport. Look at the people supporting this! Open | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
water swim Inc is great fun, I have done some of it where I live, it is | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
great. Get a wetsuit on, other weekend at 8:00am in the morning, | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
:20:06. | :20:12. | ||
you don't halfway up! Beautiful. -- the you don't half wake up. You can | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
:20:22. | :20:22. | ||
do breaststroke, you don't have to do racing. I think that was the | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
Argentinian flag. Look at that. Found it. I think the fact it is | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
bright pink it helps. I think Keri- Anne had some then. I am pleased, | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
it is a long-distance. You think, I will keep on going and I will be | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
fine. But if you make a mistake now, and then when you are 10 to 20 | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
minutes from the end, and you should have fed, it is too late. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
The American, Hayley Anderson swam right next to the pontoon, the | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
feeding station. All these poles are sticking out and had to swim | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
underneath all of them. Her coach was right at the end of it and she | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
had an easy take. Coaches can coach them from the pontoon as they go | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
past and have their drink. Hayley Anderson is quite young and you to | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
the sport. She is determined. 20 years of age and decided it is open | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
water. Even though she was the American College champion, at 500 | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
freestyle, 41 metres, pretty much, she was the champion. She said she | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
:21:51. | :22:12. | ||
swam through it almost just to at Trojan. Yes in Los Angeles, | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
where the Olympics was. On the right hand side, swimming all the | :22:18. | :22:28. | |
:22:28. | :22:28. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds | :22:28. | :24:30. | |
Risztov, 26, this year's European Championships, she took silver | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
medal in the 1500m freestyle. She is trying to make a break. The | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
coming up to the halfway in this women's 10,000 kilometres open | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
water. Risztov is trying to stretch them out. She must have put in a | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
big drive. That is the referee's whistle. I think they are doing it | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
to the middle of the pack. It is the grave but at the back, somebody | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
:25:14. | :25:15. | ||
in the middle of the pack -- it is the grey boat. | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
Risztov just getting caught again. The summer at the bottom of | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
:25:31. | :25:34. | ||
Anderson, -- Risztov, is Anderson, working out which way to go. | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
:25:44. | :25:49. | ||
can see the referee, holding up a cannot see it, which is a bit | :25:49. | :25:58. | |
disappointing. It looks like Eva Risztov has made the move and now | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
she is being covered by Hayley Anderson of the USA. Still | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
difficult to see, Angela Maurer is in there. Angela Maurer has | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
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