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Welcome to the penultimate day of action from London 2012. It is the | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
day with more medals up for grabs than any other. And this is where | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
they can be won. We are heading to the Essex countryside as the bikes | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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head for the hills. Annie Last goes for Team GB at 12:30pm. | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
Can Brazil win their first Olympic medal? It is a 3pm kick-off at | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
Wembley as they take on Mexico. You can see that on BBC One. | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
Great Britain's men need to pick themselves up, they are playing for | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
the bronze today. But it will be tough against Australia. That is on | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
BBC Three at 3:30pm. At 7:30pm, Mo Farah will become the | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
first man to try and win the 10,000m and the 5,000-metre there | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
at the same Olympic Games. Ken Usain Bolt make it a triple to | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
make a fitting finale to the athletics competition. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
Let's get it you up-to-date with what has been going on. A fantastic | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
day 15. The headlines: it all got off to a perfect start for a gold | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
medal for Ed McKeever in the sprint can move. It is now 26 gold medals | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
for Great Britain. It was a bronze for Britain | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
indicate to race, Liam Heath and Jon Schofield finishing third | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
behind an impressive Russian crew. Tom Daley is through to the ten- | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
metre platform diving final after an excellent performance in the | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
aquatic centre. He qualified in fourth place. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
The men's modern pentathlon is under way, Samuel Weale and Nick | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
Woodbridge are both in 14th place. Next will be the 200m freestyle | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
swim. What a morning, and with a total of | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
11 medals on wheels, Great Britain have had more success than any | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
other nation at these Olympics. After glory on the track and road, | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
will the momentum continue? It is time to go Wrobel crunching. | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
Mountain bike. Mountain biking was developed in California in the | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
1970s and made its Olympic debut in 1996. The Olympic event is a cross- | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
country discipline in which riders won the goes CA's a rough and hilly | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
course with obstacles and technical challenges. Bikes are built for | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
speed, durability and comfort with either full suspension or front | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
suspension. In total, 80 athletes will compete for two gold medals. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
And there are 50 riders in the men's event and 30 in the women's. | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
Each event begins with a mass start with starting positions been | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
predetermined by world ranking. The first across the line wins the gold | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
medal. Each lap of the course is 4.7 kilometres long, with each race | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
taking a minimum of 90 minutes to complete. During the race, the | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
riders are presented with optional routes. The more direct and | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
dangerous, or the safer but slower the route. In total, riders will | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
climb 1204 metres in the men's race, and 1032 metres in the MEN -- | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
women's. If you have liked to get involved | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
in a Olympic sport. Today it is the women's race. There | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
are no heats are semi-finals, it is the first one over the line. 21- | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
year-old Annie Last is the first British woman to qualify for 12 | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
years. Let's find out more about her. | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
This is the hardest cycling discipline for me. You have to have | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
the ability to focus for one hour and 45 minutes, beat yourself up | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
for an extended period of time and have the technical skill not to | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
make a mistake. You have to have the physical skill of the track | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
athletes. Then you have to put it all together in the race and cope | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
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with the Olympic Games. Is it true you on this bike because of a dare | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
with your brother? Yes. My brother always used to do crossed races. I | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
used to get dragged along to his races, but I liked horse riding. He | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
said to me, if you do a cross race, I will ride a horse. I said, OK | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
then. It was a 10 minute race, then you get a good deed bag, some | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
freebies. I thought, I will do this again. Who are you looking out bar? | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
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He will you be thinking you need to beat? You have Catherine Pendle. | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
And the winner of the last World Cup. The she is in her Fortes isn't | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
she? Yes, quite a bit older than me. You are 21, so this is a sport | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
where you can spend years picking up skill and nerve? Especially in | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
the women's field, there are a few older athletes who are exceptional. | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
The last a Olympic champion, Sabine Spitz was 37 when she won in | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
Beijing. You are going in on good form? He has come I will be on the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
front line. The it is an advantage, but you have to keep up there? | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
has come here get placed according to your world ranking. I and 4th on | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
the grid. But then, you have to look after your position and go | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
around this loop to get onto the single track. It is going to be | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
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hard for everyone. Come on, you can do it. I believe in you! It is a | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
massive victory she has made in the Olympics. It is the first British | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
woman to be placed in 12 years. Not only has she qualified, she has | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
worked the hardest I have ever seen in the last 12 months, and she is | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
in a great place. We have come to one of the trickiest parts, the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
rock garden. It is a key part of the course, it could make or break | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
you raise? It is technical exception and it is moving into a | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
long climb, which is towards the back end of the course as well. If | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
you are behind someone, you might overtake them, so in this narrow | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
section you are in front of them. So to overtake on that, it is | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
tricky? It is. She is a phenomenal athlete, she is on form, she is fit, | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
will she be on the podium? My guess is, she will do the best she can do | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
and get the country behind her. Everybody who has seen on met her, | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
will be rooting for her. From the Olympic Park, we're off to | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
a rare breeds farm, run by the Salvation Army to see how the mind | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
to in biker can cope with the Essex coast. -- mountain biker. Helen | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Skelton is down with Chris Boardman. Someone else who is handy on a bike. | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
I am concerned about the offshore wind, you can see how close it is | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
to the course. We heard the canoeists talking about the extra | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
challenge of the head wind. Will this be an issue? It shouldn't be, | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
because it is different. The canoeists are going in one | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
direction. On this course, riders are constantly changing position, | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
on they Chris? It is unusual, but because it is a natural | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
amphitheatre, and they are constantly changing direction, it | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
shouldn't have a bearing on the race. Essex is not known for its | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
gradients, but this course does take all the boxes... The guys have | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
done a fantastic job. It is an interesting course, it is a new | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
style and made it much smaller. Five kilometres in length so the | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
spectators get to see more. Because it is open, it is great for the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
spectators because you can see right across the course. Annie Last, | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
it is not unrealistic to say she might be on the podium is it? | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
just a couple of weeks ago she was third in the World Cup and that is | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
her best result. She was only just behind the French goal, but it is | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
will be about the start, she needs to get off quick. She needs to | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
master the technical bits. The only way I can compare it is it is like | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
a staircase made of rocks. That is my mitigation and bear to mind as I | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
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try to prove to you how tricky it That is its, pedal, pedal, pedal. | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
Just go over there, and stop. It is quite a drop. It is unbelievable. | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
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You have a bit of a jump up on your left. It is horrendous. I dine out | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
on the fact I am hard. It is a fear factor. You start to shake a little | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
bit. They are scary obstacles, it is a tough sport. A imagine that is | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
why it is addictive, because of the agenda run? You do get a kick. | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
adrenalin. Come and aim towards the outside of this. Are you | :11:39. | :11:49. | |
comfortable? I am going off this bit, this sharp rock. The feeling | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
you have got now is nothing towards what the athletes are feeling. You | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
need to let that the bike ride. Imagine a roller-coaster, it never | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
quite stops, it is always flowing. Oh OK, let's do this. Poor your | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
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brakes a bit. -- Paul your brakes. Let it roll in. I you're OK? Yes. | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
Are you sure? Yes, we got over it. I want to do it again because I | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
want to get it right. I am my own worst enemy. Get your sleeves down, | :12:34. | :12:44. | |
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to protect your arms. Are you all right? I am, yes. What am I doing?! | :12:46. | :12:56. | |
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Relax. Does that count as a success? A counts as finished. | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
you just saying that to stop me? it counts. You have done well, it | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
really well. I have been in the velodrome, I have ridden a road | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
bike plenty of times, and I have done things similar to that. I say | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
similar, never as intimidating as that. Prospector! Well done. -- | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
respect. I wanted to carry on but Phil was on the verge of a heart | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
attack. He said, you have done your best. Hopefully we won't see any | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
accidents, there are plenty of medics around the course. It is | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
almost time for Annie Last to go for the gold medal. The first woman | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
to qualify for this mountain bike events the 12 years. It is time to | :13:53. | :14:03. | |
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just seen the reigning Olympic champion. Julia press-out, who is | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
tipped to do well. Annie Last of Great Britain. How do you rate her | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
chances, Chris? She has a great chance, she was third in the World | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
Cup. She is looking to improve. She has ridden this course more than | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
any other rider, she has done more than 100 laps in training. We are | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
expecting good things. If it is a very close field here at Hadleigh | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
Farm. The start will be important. Technically Annie Last is great, | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
but she needs to get literally into the first corner first. If she can | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
do that she will have a great shot up at getting a medal. Three rows | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
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watch? She managed to get into the first corner, they will do this | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
start a look before they go ensued the technical sections. Her coach, | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
Phil Dixon said he is expecting some crashes on the first technical | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
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unforgiving. Most of them are using carbon fibre, which is the super- | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
strong, but if it falls sideways on to prop, it will crack. Annie, just | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
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as they hit the first climb. Annie Last will be happy, this is exactly | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
the start she wanted, to get into this technical section, probably | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
the best technical Rivett in this field. Not physically the best. She | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
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will expect to get caught back on the climb. The first crash there in | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
the middle section. She has survived getting hit by anybody | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
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else. You can see how nasty it is. The field is spaced out so nicely. | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
You can see how they control does crashers, pushing the weight on to | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
the back wheel, trying to control it. Annie Last in front, looking | :17:15. | :17:25. | |
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comfortable. The more technical, went down. There are several routes, | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
and easier route which is harder -- longer. The harder it is not for | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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the paint -- the paint heart it. That was the Polish Rider. | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
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Dawidowicz. Straight back up. of different choices. You have to | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
hit that with speed, if you do not commit, it will be messy. All of | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
these riders will have trained harder on this course, it is so | :18:21. | :18:31. | |
quick and fast, these technical, hard sections, then a hard climb. | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
Just over one minute and 15, that will be the toughest part. They | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
will do almost one chronometer. It should be about one hour and 45 | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
minutes. Some of the hardest raising you'll see in the mountain | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
bike. Some of the heart rate profiles go up to the threshold and | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
it stays there. It is not like a road race where you rest in the | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
slipstream. All the resistance from a mountain bike race is from the | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
ground. We have perfect weather, looking out over the Thames estuary. | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
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But we have quite a lot of wind, 6.1 metres per second. It is easily | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
18 miles an hour, will that make a lot of difference? The nice thing | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
about this course, it is exposed, because it is set in this | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
amphitheatre, you thought the winds might allow a bit of a slipstream. | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
They are constantly changing direction. I don't they it will | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
have as much an effect as in a time trial or road race. Let us run | :19:57. | :20:07. | |
through the format. They have the six laps. One technical section. | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
One feed station. If they get a puncture, even 20 metres past the | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
technical section, they cannot turn round and go back. They have to do | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
another half a lap to get back there. Whether they run their bike | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
or ride it with a flat tyre, that is the rule. That is the only place | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
you can get technical help. They carry with them a small canister to | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
inflate tyres if they had a puncture, that will get them to the | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
finish area. Fundamentally, they have to sort it out themselves. | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
They are running the suspension four very hard today because of the | :20:54. | :21:03. | |
very rocky nature of this course. Such hard impact. You can be thrown | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
overt the top so they are running them harder than normally. They | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
Arif few people are running for suspension bikes. | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
It is a hard, compact race with obstacles. Despite those nasty | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
technical sections, it will be fast. A little bit of they pile up on one | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
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of the switchbacks. A decent amount paper, is Catharine Pendrel. She is | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
having a good race at the moment. World champion and World Cup | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
champion, forced back in Beijing. She was bitterly disappointed, | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
desperately wants to win today. So, I think we will be watching her in | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
the mix. Annie still holding on to that lead at the moment. We can | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
expect them to take a little under 20 minutes for these lapse. The | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
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first lap a bit longer because of this stopped loop. -- start loop. | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
Going through the feed sown. Starting to stretch out a lot. | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
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Annie. Just behind Julie Bresset who leads. A group of six forming, | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
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it was predicted it would quickly break. There is a little bit of | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
shelter. We just saw Catharine Pendrel down in about 10th position | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
coming through the first half lap split. Catharine Pendrel, right | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
down intend position at the moment. She has got herself caught up. | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
think she is getting back in touch with this group. The problem is in | :23:20. | :23:28. | |
passing. There are sections of this course which are narrow. Passing on | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
a climb, as we can see, it is energy expensive. Once you lose | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
your place, or make a mistake, it can be extremely costly. Beautiful | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
shops from out aerial camera. bunching up a little bit. -- | :23:49. | :23:59. | |
beautiful shots. Julie Bresset was one of the favourites. Having a | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
chat with the British coach to see who is on form. She was second at | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
the recent World Cup, just in front of Annie Last. It is interesting to | :24:10. | :24:20. | |
see the age come down. Both very young. Put that in comparison with | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
Sabine Spitz who is 40 years old. This is the leap of faith they're | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
coming down here. That is a nasty section, you cannot believe | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
somebody will write down it. If you think the rocks don't look native | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
to Essex, they have imported 500 tons of Derbyshire of grit stone | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
and 3,000 tonnes of crushed rock to build this course. There are no | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
boggy sections, it is a hard and quick draining course. It is mostly | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
gravel and rock. This is not what Annie Last was expecting, she is | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
stretching them out on the physical section. That is a real surprise. | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
She was expected to excel in the technical section and be overhauled | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
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on the climb. You can see here, we have a problem. Julie Bresset, she | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
just swerved over. Julie Bresset has got back on her bike. She knew | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
that Annie Last had a chance to get away. You can see what it costs on | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
that Klein, physically very demanding. This need is paying off. | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
She is staying clear of the traffic. Not getting caught up with any of | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
the other riders. Her technical ability is well suited to Racal's | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
matches, she has ridden well over 100 laps of this circuit in | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
training, in all weathers. She knows this course better than the | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
back of her hand and it is paying off. It is only early days. Annie | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
Last will be happy with this start. An hour and a half of racing is | :26:20. | :26:29. | |
long. Julie Bresset getting caught on a fence and cutting everyone off | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
by -- there. They had a test event here last | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
year and a lot of the riders asked for the course to be widened. | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
they did change the course and made it wider in sections. They also | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
gave more options on the technical section because everyone was | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
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following the same line. These two are clear. There are some trials | :27:04. | :27:14. | |
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bikes tracking them up hill. child's bike with the green | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
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indicates how many laps far left. - the trials bike. | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
You can see the experience of those three. Nobody ready to push on, | :27:41. | :27:49. | |
working hard up this climb, happy to hold position. Nobody will go | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
around this course faster than Annie Last, she has already created | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
a gap. That is her strategy, forced the others to catch up. There isn't | :27:59. | :28:08. | |
really any slipstream. They have to concentrate so hard. Lose rock, | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
gravel, in the turns. The body is constantly taking a pummelling. | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
They are basing their muscles against the vibration all of the | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
time. They are so demanding. You can see it in the pulse rate. It | :28:25. | :28:31. | |
stays high it all of the way. You can see now the latter riders | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
struggling through those technical sections. This field is really | :28:35. | :28:42. | |
stretching out now. Well into their first lap as they go through the | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
technical zone for the second time. They will start to take bottles on | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
the next lap rather than carried it because weight is so important in | :28:51. | :28:58. | |
mountain-biking. Their air resistance is such a small part but | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
wait is critical. They will do anything including not putting | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
paint on the frame, to save weight. How much weight would you really | :29:09. | :29:15. | |
save without paint? It is about 60 grams. It depends on your colour | :29:15. | :29:24. | |
scheme, but Red Ed is heavier! Coming up, this is the final major | :29:24. | :29:31. | |
climb. Quite a short one, but it is a very steep descent which will | :29:31. | :29:41. | |
:29:41. | :29:42. | ||
carry them round in to a very tight chicane littered with rocks. | :29:42. | :29:51. | |
usually goes according to the gridding. It becomes very clear who | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
is on top. Reflective of who is on form at the moment. Catharine | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
Pendrel just coming through. Annie Last has led. Apart from the end of | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
the start, where Julie Bresset came back on. That is a reasonable | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
margin. Catharine Pendrel, maybe 100 metres, she can close this gap, | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
the Canadian, desperately wants a result here. But how many times can | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
she keep closing the gap? Annie Last is not as physically capable | :30:23. | :30:33. | |
:30:33. | :30:38. | ||
as the Canadian, but technically these gaps, physically? Sprinting | :30:38. | :30:45. | |
into that it will kill her, she needs to develop a rhythm. It means | :30:45. | :30:54. | |
they are not fully recovered at all when they climb. Coming through... | :30:55. | :31:02. | |
Starting the second lap, Julie Bresset Ertel in front. Catherine | :31:02. | :31:12. | |
:31:12. | :31:14. | ||
Pendrel, and Sabine Spitz. Very little, separating the top five. | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
Sabine Spitz is the defending Olympic champion. She knows how to | :31:19. | :31:26. | |
deal with those pressures. It is a select group forming. There are | :31:26. | :31:31. | |
some others trying to get on terms. Unless they can get in front, which | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
I don't think is possible, eventually they will peel away from | :31:36. | :31:44. | |
the front group. It will swell on to this part of the course, about | :31:44. | :31:54. | |
:31:54. | :31:54. | ||
10 riders keeping in touch. Annie Last taking matter very nicely. | :31:54. | :31:59. | |
was a fast first lap as well, considering they have the start | :31:59. | :32:05. | |
loop in there. They will and force the 80% rules. They don't want back | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
markers interfering with the race. After the first lap, they time it. | :32:10. | :32:16. | |
If anybody gets 80% behind, they will take them out as they come | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
through the finish area. If it takes 10 minutes to do a lap, as | :32:21. | :32:29. | |
soon as they are doing... Eight minutes back, they are out. I am | :32:29. | :32:39. | |
:32:39. | :32:40. | ||
good at mathematics. Not really, I am glad you chose 10 minutes. They | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
know how important positioning is so they go into the red in the | :32:44. | :32:52. | |
first lap to get themselves in the right place on the course. You can | :32:52. | :32:58. | |
see the arms working down. So technical. The riders can get up on | :32:58. | :33:08. | |
the rocks if they want to a round the corner. It is Julie Bresset | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
still leading. In second we have Catherine Pendrel and Annie Last is | :33:14. | :33:19. | |
in third. Sabine Spitz, reigning a lot -- Olympic champion, opting to | :33:19. | :33:26. | |
go round the outside of the tree rather than the jump. The cameraman | :33:26. | :33:31. | |
could not decide which way to go. They are coming thick and fast | :33:31. | :33:39. | |
either side of him. This is a great course. What I like about it, and | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
risky sections of the course will reward with speed. If you are | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
prepared to take the jump over the rocks, it is faster than going | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
round the outside of the hill. risk, reward ratio, there is a | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
couple of options on every technical section. The higher skill | :34:01. | :34:08. | |
factor, the riskiest way is the shortest. Some of the big news at | :34:08. | :34:18. | |
the moment is one of the favourites, 39-year-old Norwegian, Dahle is in | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
20th place. She could have moved up a little bit, but that is the kind | :34:23. | :34:29. | |
of deficit you cannot get back against talent like this. It is so | :34:29. | :34:35. | |
costly to have to get back. There is no let up. Those graphics are | :34:35. | :34:41. | |
wrong, and the last is back out in front. Followed by Julie Bresset. | :34:41. | :34:47. | |
Catherine Pendrel just behind. Sabine Spitz coming into the frame. | :34:47. | :34:55. | |
Most of the favourites are where we expected them to beat. Katerina | :34:55. | :35:02. | |
Nash is giving a great ride. But they are closing up. A lot of | :35:02. | :35:09. | |
people had speculated it would form into tight groups early on. They | :35:09. | :35:13. | |
are basically stretching out and then coming back, stretching out | :35:13. | :35:19. | |
and coming back. But it is the same names. We are having to use the | :35:19. | :35:26. | |
same sections the from group are using to break a -- take a breather. | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
Then they get the next hard section they are out of breath. It will | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
catch up with you. You'll probably get away with it once or twice. | :35:35. | :35:42. | |
That is probably about 10 seconds now. Just coming to the bottom of | :35:42. | :35:49. | |
snake Hill. An evil little section of the course. Lots of switchbacks. | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
The rock across the course, forcing the riders to concentrate and think | :35:54. | :36:01. | |
about it were they are breaking. One set of rocks at just ice sex at | :36:01. | :36:07. | |
the middle of the course, so you have to go five-a-side of it. It | :36:07. | :36:11. | |
was one of the things they added, a couple of good over taking | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
positions. What a shot that is as they go up this long as climb on | :36:16. | :36:26. | |
:36:26. | :36:28. | ||
the course. Just over a minute long. These four are stretching away. | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
Riders could physically bridge back up, then lose it again on the | :36:34. | :36:39. | |
descent. I think we are seeing the four riders who will be fighting it | :36:39. | :36:45. | |
out. You will be certain are one of them has gone off too hard and well | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
paid the price. Heat will be a factor today as well. The winds | :36:50. | :36:57. | |
keeping the temperature down slightly. 21 degrees already. | :36:57. | :37:03. | |
Another piece of information on the British rider, Annie Last. They | :37:03. | :37:10. | |
have just been in the Alps and have been doing a lot of downhill | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
training on a mountain bike with no rear suspension, to put the body | :37:14. | :37:23. | |
through its paces the the kind of battering they get off these rocks. | :37:23. | :37:28. | |
It may pay dividends later. There is a lot of pressure on these | :37:28. | :37:34. | |
riders. In this group, they cannot afford to make a mistake. The | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
smallest mistake will cost them so dearly if they dropped back. They | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
are all together at the front, the ones we expected, Annie Last is | :37:43. | :37:50. | |
still in touch. Catherine Pendrel is where she needs to be. They | :37:50. | :37:56. | |
won't be making a break, they will be happy to stay in this group. You | :37:56. | :38:01. | |
saw them take a bottle through the technical zone. They will take | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
maybe half a bottle. Because they go through it so frequently, they | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
will keep it on the bike and then drink it over the top of the small | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
climb. They will constantly take on bottles so they are not carrying | :38:15. | :38:21. | |
the weight of the water with them. We have a little game of mountain | :38:21. | :38:25. | |
bike musical chairs. Another group of three have just pulled | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
themselves up. One person makes a mistake and you can see the damage | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
will stop suddenly losing 30 metres. The second group of three riders | :38:36. | :38:41. | |
decided to sprint up and almost piled into the back of the leading | :38:41. | :38:51. | |
group. And what happens at the back, they will catch up, but we did see | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
before when Julie Bresset tried to pass. It is too narrow. They will | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
be happy to stay on the wheel. And they are not technically as good, | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
and they will lose the distance. Eventually they would just fall a | :39:06. | :39:11. | |
way. Every time a very hard training when they do those sprints. | :39:11. | :39:18. | |
They get you out of your comfort zone. That looks like Julie Bresset | :39:18. | :39:24. | |
Air France pushing. She was the favourite of the British coach when | :39:24. | :39:30. | |
I was talking to him yesterday. He said she is the one pushing at the | :39:30. | :39:40. | |
:39:40. | :39:44. | ||
moment. It look slight Sabine Spitz, Catherine Pendrel and then followed | :39:44. | :39:54. | |
:39:54. | :39:55. | ||
very closely by Katerina Nash and then the Russians. Rather than any | :39:55. | :40:03. | |
long, driving climbs they are very short climbs. It keeps their heart | :40:03. | :40:10. | |
rate absolutely Max out for the duration. Julie Bresset out in | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
front. Sabine Spitz is there. Be looks like Catherine Pendrel going | :40:16. | :40:22. | |
round the outside. She wants her taste of the lead. The Russian is | :40:23. | :40:29. | |
getting back on terms as well, she is a former bronze-medallist. Also | :40:29. | :40:37. | |
flag as an outsider. Paying a price for the very hard opening lap. But | :40:37. | :40:44. | |
she is still in touch. Sabine Spitz has taken the lead. And the last is | :40:44. | :40:50. | |
in 4th. They come down this a very, deceptively fast section 4 how | :40:50. | :40:55. | |
rough it is. You cannot afford to make a single mistake on surfaces | :40:55. | :41:02. | |
like this. So impressive. Sabine Spitz are opting to go round the | :41:02. | :41:09. | |
outside of the Little Rock Garden. Would you say, climbing is not | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
Annie Last's strong point? I was out on the bike with her this year, | :41:14. | :41:23. | |
and it was bad for my ego. Technically, she made me cry! She | :41:23. | :41:28. | |
is phenomenal. Technically she is good, there are stronger riders on | :41:28. | :41:34. | |
the climbs and it will be one skill verses another. Sabine Spitz wants | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
to thin this out as quickly as possible. She was looking for the | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
easiest sections through the rocks. A couple of times we saw Julie | :41:44. | :41:50. | |
Bresset on her tail while Sabine Spitz was looking around the side. | :41:50. | :41:55. | |
That is the choice you make. The technical sections are harder on | :41:55. | :42:01. | |
the body. You can see the tyre pressure being used. Catherine | :42:01. | :42:07. | |
Pendrel has opted for a softer pressure. It is slightly smoother | :42:07. | :42:13. | |
over the rocks. They cannot have them too soft or they can suffer an | :42:13. | :42:20. | |
impact punctured. What pressure, in range? Probably around five bar | :42:20. | :42:28. | |
maximum here, but more likely 3.5. It is a tubular tyres so there is | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
no in the Tube, it is encased in a circular section and they are glued | :42:32. | :42:39. | |
on to the rim. It gives you a faster ride. It is a very good view | :42:39. | :42:47. | |
of how soft it is. Annie Last is in 4th position, just in touch. She is | :42:47. | :42:54. | |
about to come into one of the sections that plays to her stance. | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
Catherine Pendrel and Sabine Spitz the leading down this section. | :42:58. | :43:06. | |
There is no let up at all. technical section again for the | :43:07. | :43:16. | |
second time on this lap. Then they have won, short, steep climb after | :43:16. | :43:21. | |
this and then they will come through for their second lap. Very, | :43:21. | :43:27. | |
very interesting race so far. will also see a difference in their | :43:27. | :43:36. | |
bikes. Some of them are using 29 inch wheels and the standard is 26. | :43:36. | :43:42. | |
The larger wheels roll faster and smooth out a lot of bumps, but | :43:42. | :43:49. | |
there is a higher rate penalty. They also added a rotational rates, | :43:49. | :43:55. | |
which is a disadvantage. So the bigger wheel does not get caught in | :43:55. | :44:01. | |
the small gaps? Riders can roll over the top of them. Does it | :44:01. | :44:06. | |
change manoeuvrability? It slows the handlebars down, I have been | :44:06. | :44:15. | |
out on both types. For you and I, 29 Inch would smooth it out. It | :44:15. | :44:25. | |
:44:25. | :44:28. | ||
depends on your size as well. Also they have very small head tubes and | :44:28. | :44:35. | |
sloping down stems that to get over the fact the wheels are so big. | :44:35. | :44:40. | |
that to do with your riding position? Yes, they are still | :44:40. | :44:50. | |
:44:50. | :44:58. | ||
deciding at the moment. Julie Bresset has signed a two year | :44:58. | :45:04. | |
contract with an elite sporting programme. France only give 10 of | :45:04. | :45:11. | |
those out a year. Under 23 champion last year. She is one of the | :45:11. | :45:17. | |
youngest. She is pulling away. Julie best setter with almost 30 | :45:17. | :45:23. | |
metres gap, back down to Catherine Pendrel. Sabine Spitz is right on | :45:23. | :45:33. | |
:45:33. | :45:41. | ||
through that section. She did what she needed to do, on that opening | :45:41. | :45:47. | |
lap. Perhaps paying a price that as everyone settles into their place. | :45:47. | :45:52. | |
The American, Georgia Gould, making a play here. I think she may have | :45:53. | :45:59. | |
come up, past Annie. Julie Bresset comes through first. Sabine Spitz | :45:59. | :46:09. | |
:46:09. | :46:12. | ||
in the second,... She has really come through. Annie Last his 5th. - | :46:12. | :46:22. | |
:46:22. | :46:23. | ||
- is fifth. A definite group of six which has broken out. Apart from | :46:23. | :46:30. | |
Dahle Flesjaa, all of the favourites are there. Everybody | :46:30. | :46:36. | |
taking a drink as they come through. You feel you need to keep the | :46:36. | :46:40. | |
pressure on but if you neglect taking a drink, you'll pay a | :46:40. | :46:47. | |
serious price later on. The slower speed is they don't get the cooling | :46:47. | :46:54. | |
effect of a road race. Russell temperature is so high in this race. | :46:54. | :47:04. | |
-- muscle temperature. She needs to take a breather. She | :47:04. | :47:12. | |
had a great start. Punchy slightly above her weight on the climb. -- | :47:12. | :47:22. | |
:47:22. | :47:29. | ||
Annie Last, straight down the middle. Kalentieva doing the same. | :47:29. | :47:37. | |
It is a lot easier following. But if the rider in front has a problem, | :47:37. | :47:46. | |
there is no way to stop. Georgia Gould, taking Catharine Pendrel. | :47:46. | :47:52. | |
Julie Bresset, in control. Sabine Spitz going with her. She has | :47:52. | :47:58. | |
certainly stretch the lead in those technical sections. Georgia Gould, | :47:58. | :48:08. | |
:48:08. | :48:21. | ||
back in 5th. Julie Bresset is the key very comfortable in front. | :48:21. | :48:28. | |
is a very open course, unusual for him mountain-bike course. For the | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
spectators and out aerial cameras, it is making a difference. We can | :48:32. | :48:40. | |
follow all of the action in this race. A fantastic design. The site | :48:40. | :48:48. | |
is 122 years old. First bought by William Booth, the founder of the | :48:48. | :48:55. | |
Salvation Army, he turned 900 acres into his vision, helping unemployed | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
and marginalised people, getting back into the work force. It still | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
trains to hundred people a week out here. A beautiful piece of | :49:04. | :49:10. | |
countryside, been put to good use. I understand this will be open to | :49:10. | :49:20. | |
:49:20. | :49:22. | ||
the public after the Olympics. idea is to add an awful lot more of | :49:22. | :49:29. | |
bike trails. It will be something to ride on the mountain bike | :49:29. | :49:39. | |
:49:39. | :49:40. | ||
Olympic course. A definite bunching again of the top four. Julie | :49:40. | :49:45. | |
Bresset. Sabine Spitz. Georgia Gould has had a fantastic charge | :49:45. | :49:50. | |
from the end of the second lapse macro, now pushing hard. Catharine | :49:50. | :49:57. | |
Pendrel pushing hard. Annie Last has dropped back to sit position. | :49:57. | :50:05. | |
We have seen this group changing positions. In the next 10 minutes, | :50:05. | :50:10. | |
we will see the group which will contest the medals. Not necessarily | :50:10. | :50:16. | |
the ones who have been strong so far, it is about pacing your effort. | :50:16. | :50:23. | |
Sabine Spitz. She looks like she is in a good position. You can see it | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
in the body language, who is working harder. Who is waiting. | :50:28. | :50:33. | |
Sabine Spitz is not leading the race but she is constantly in touch. | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
She seems to have a little bit left in reserve. Julie Bresset will know | :50:38. | :50:45. | |
that. She looks good, the French rider. Riding with a lot of | :50:45. | :50:53. | |
experience for someone of such a young age. It comes with confidence. | :50:53. | :50:58. | |
With such a consistent season under your belt, she knows on paper she | :50:58. | :51:04. | |
has this in about, if she can write to her strengths. Sabine Spitz is | :51:04. | :51:10. | |
in her 4th Olympics. Georgia Gould has done a good job, benefiting | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
from being careful at the start, not going with that early charge | :51:16. | :51:22. | |
led by Annie Last. Riding her own race. She has bought herself up. It | :51:22. | :51:28. | |
is like a time trial, you are constantly on the limit. If you | :51:28. | :51:35. | |
overcook it, there is no way to recover. If you did go up harder on | :51:35. | :51:40. | |
the first lap, it will take a long time to recover the effort made. | :51:40. | :51:47. | |
Those six are pulling away. Two groups of three. Georgia Gould was | :51:47. | :51:52. | |
8th in Beijing, a little bit of the Olympic experience. Basic Olympic | :51:52. | :51:59. | |
disappointment goes a long way, a good motivator. Stretching out. | :51:59. | :52:09. | |
:52:09. | :52:15. | ||
Julie Bresset of France seems to be Quebec this year. She got a third | :52:15. | :52:20. | |
place, just after that. She certainly has form, not the same we | :52:20. | :52:28. | |
have seen from Julie Bresset. She is looking comfortable. A long way | :52:28. | :52:38. | |
to go at the moment. The Julie Bresset, from France. I had a nasty | :52:38. | :52:43. | |
crash in the Tour de France. have seen physically mountain | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
bikers crossing over to road racing, it isn't something that will become | :52:46. | :52:54. | |
more prevalent? They tend to be very goodbye handlers when they | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
come across to the road. They often use it as a way of getting physical | :53:01. | :53:08. | |
conditioning, without actually doing the damage. Stretching out | :53:08. | :53:14. | |
now. Annie Last of Great Britain was leading for all of the first | :53:14. | :53:23. | |
lap, now 40 seconds in arrears. A good shot of Julie Bresset. On | :53:23. | :53:33. | |
:53:33. | :53:40. | ||
Annie Last is sitting in 6th, at the end of that top group. Suddenly, | :53:40. | :53:47. | |
it's not just Sabine Spitz put in the pressure on Julie Bresset. More | :53:47. | :53:54. | |
pressure from Georgia Gould behind her. There bunching up on the climb, | :53:54. | :53:58. | |
Julie Bresset staying in charge in the technical section. Just to go | :53:58. | :54:06. | |
back, she is the dark horse, she hasn't been put dissipating in a | :54:06. | :54:14. | |
lot of the World Cups. Form is there. Starting to see those first | :54:15. | :54:21. | |
three stretch out. As we look at the aerial view. A good 10 seconds | :54:21. | :54:29. | |
to the next three. Still plenty of racing to go. Probably about 45 | :54:29. | :54:39. | |
:54:39. | :54:42. | ||
the right lines, it is different about race pace. You can train and | :54:42. | :54:52. | |
:54:52. | :54:53. | ||
Chen but, when racing, it is not always the same. You can see them | :54:53. | :55:02. | |
slide the rear wheel, to line it up. To use the groove that is | :55:02. | :55:08. | |
developing on the course. Using the bombs to slow down and control | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
their descent. Very difficult for their road rider to come across to | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
mountain-biking. If you slide on a road bike it normally means it is | :55:17. | :55:22. | |
over. Here, it is a matter of course, for the wheels to be | :55:22. | :55:30. | |
constantly moving on the descent. Grinding their way. Another of | :55:30. | :55:39. | |
these punishing a sense -- ascents. Julie Bresset, reluctant to let | :55:39. | :55:45. | |
anyone else take the lead. Interestingly, these are very | :55:45. | :55:53. | |
slight riders because the power to rate is -- weight, is critical. But | :55:53. | :55:57. | |
they are on a par with track sprinters who are about power. They | :55:57. | :56:07. | |
:56:07. | :56:10. | ||
don't have the sprint -- sustainability. Some of these girls | :56:10. | :56:20. | |
:56:20. | :56:22. | ||
are 5 ft 3, 46: -- 46 kgs. They have to mix so many abilities. The | :56:22. | :56:28. | |
technical aspect of a motocross rider. Super efficient. The front | :56:28. | :56:36. | |
of a climber to get themselves over these climbs. It is like coming out | :56:36. | :56:44. | |
of the blocks as a 100-metre runner. An incredible mix of abilities. | :56:44. | :56:54. | |
:56:54. | :56:56. | ||
Some beautiful slow-motion showing how hard these bikes are working. | :56:56. | :57:00. | |
full suspension but would give them a lot more control, but it soaks up | :57:00. | :57:10. | |
:57:10. | :57:16. | ||
looking very smooth, and still very comfortable, she is not puffing at | :57:16. | :57:26. | |
:57:26. | :57:26. | ||
all. Sabine Spitz is on Hotel, that group of three you can see -- on | :57:27. | :57:35. | |
her tail. Annie Last is back up into 4th place. She drove back | :57:35. | :57:39. | |
first lap so she didn't get caught in the traffic. She said she wanted | :57:39. | :57:43. | |
to be into the first bend, technically superb, leading the | :57:43. | :57:49. | |
field. She paid the price. She has had the confidence to back off and | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
let herself get back on terms. Now, starting to ride effectively a time | :57:55. | :58:03. | |
trial, moving back towards this front group. That is great, some | :58:03. | :58:07. | |
experienced choices. She will make it up on the technical sections. | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
She is on the back foot now, rather than resting on the flatter | :58:11. | :58:18. | |
sections, she will have to keep the pressure on, to close that gap. | :58:18. | :58:28. | |
:58:28. | :58:48. | ||
Just coming round into the incredible pace. She has eased off | :58:48. | :58:55. | |
slightly, settling into the middle of the race. That puts them on the | :58:56. | :59:00. | |
front foot, if anyone is coming back, they have to drive hard, | :59:00. | :59:04. | |
whereas they have had a rest. It will be difficult for anybody, even | :59:04. | :59:14. | |
if they can make contact with these three. Julie Bresset keeps | :59:14. | :59:18. | |
producing daylight all the time, not technically a good climber. | :59:18. | :59:22. | |
Keeping a self in control. The others are using their slightly | :59:22. | :59:28. | |
superior physical ability to close gaps rather than make gaps. This | :59:28. | :59:33. | |
last vicious little climb before they drop down into the finish | :59:33. | :59:42. | |
arena. A short steep climb, then dropping off the back, on to the | :59:42. | :59:47. | |
rocks. Then, a little climb. And back through the finish. Julie | :59:47. | :59:53. | |
Bresset is making more of a gap now, pushing on again. She has sensed a | :59:53. | :00:00. | |
bit of daylight. They have a 20 one-second gap between the chasing | :00:00. | :00:06. | |
group, stretching it out. Georgia Gould is having a great ride. | :00:06. | :00:15. | |
timed that perfectly. Not one of the favourites here. But she has | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
:00:25. | :00:41. | ||
ridden a very canny race. Not going Sabine Spitz closing it down. If | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
they get to the next technical section she might be able to | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
stretch that out a bit. She isn't puffing that much, she looks so | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
comfortable at the moment. Five or six seconds, we will get a clear | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
look enough. There is proper daylight. Julie Bresset, 45.46 is | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
:01:15. | :01:27. | ||
her time. Then Sabine Spitz. Georgia Gould, the American. A big | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
:01:37. | :01:48. | ||
gap going to Irina Kalentieva. An average of 30 miles an hour. | :01:48. | :01:57. | |
wall of attrition is taking its toll. We are an a hard way. -- war | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
of attrition. If Julie Bresset can hold this pace, it will be a very | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
fast time. It is a brutal first half of the race for stomp we can | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
:02:20. | :02:23. | ||
expect them to back off slightly. Their bodies have taken such a | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
:02:33. | :02:43. | ||
pounding over this time. So they're just coming through Deanes Drop. | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
Julie Bresset enjoying the isolation of being in front. Most | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
:03:00. | :03:01. | ||
of these riders choosing two chain rings. We have a crash. She has | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
block Georgia Gould. We talked about this by the fact that Sabine | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
Spitz was not comfortable on the technical sections. Whilst it is in | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
great news for Sabine Spitz or Georgia Gould. It is no soft | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
landing. Georgia Gould did not try to pass or push on, she waited. | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
Dahle having a terrible ride, already in trouble. She has a | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
puncture and she has to get the bike round to the technical section. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
They do carry a self inflating canister on their bikes. If she has | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
had more than one puncture, she may have used it. She might have to | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
abandon the race, she will be so disappointed. Be to is so sad to | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
see this legendary rider because it will probably be her last. She was | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
one of the favourites, she has just won the World Cup. She rode it on | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
experience, but she will be disappointed. She won the gold | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
medal in Athens in 2004, but missed out in Atlanta by one place. But | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
Sabine Spitz, she has got a lot of work to do now. She has got to | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
catch up. Close the gap on Julie Bresset. Georgia Gould, she is | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
having a fantastic day out. She was not one of the names, you spoke to | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
anyone around here, any of the pundits and people in the know, she | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
was not a name that it was mentioned. If you are going to | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
produce personal best performances, this is the time to do it. She is | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
driving on, she wants to go through. Sabine Spitz is slowing down. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
think she knows she is not that good at the technical sections and | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
does not want to end up over the handlebars again. A lot of the | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
riders running harder pressure. They can press by about three to | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
four macro inches. If you are hitting some of those rocks, that | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
could be enough to see you go over the tops. And the last did a great | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
ride earlier on, but perhaps paying the price now. She is still in | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
:05:40. | :05:42. | ||
touch. They will know that Sabine Spitz is there for the taking. | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
Esther Suss from Switzerland. What has happened to Catherine Pendrel, | :05:47. | :05:56. | |
she has dropped away? In such a hot day, and no cover, if you go off | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
really hard, you pay a terrible price. And I think that is what has | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
happened to Catherine Pendrel. It has not happened to Julie Bresset, | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
she is away. And driving home that advantage. She now has a very clear | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
view, backed down these switchbacks, just how much of the lead she has | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
extended. Georgia Gould almost a mirroring her. And then Sabine | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
Spitz coming round the switch back now. I think she is starting to | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
slow down, losing pace all of the time. Just starting the bottom of | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
this Snake Hill, you can see and there last -- Annie Last. Then you | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
have Sabine Spitz and Georgia Gould. Be Julie Bresset exiting the top of | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
:07:01. | :07:01. | ||
Snake Hill. The first six or seven riders spread over an entire | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
hillside. I think we can expect in the next lap or so, they will apply | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
the 80% rule and start to take out the back markers. It will be | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
between three and four minutes, I will have to go to a calculator to | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
tell exactly. But three of four minutes behind the leading rider, | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
you will be pulled out of this race. The don't want any interference | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
from the back markers, they don't want them getting in the way. A | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
little bit more over the top, and throw the bottle away. A great | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
souvenir for a spectator. It will be three minutes, I think, looking | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
at it. It is not much when you see the gaps appearing between the | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
:07:57. | :07:57. | ||
front riders will stop I can see less than 15 riders being able to | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
complete this race. You can see the pounding on the muscles as they | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
come down these rocky sections. Georgia Gould in second place. | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
:08:20. | :08:23. | ||
Going underneath the track. Over into the rabbit hole, as it is | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
known. If you have just joined us, this is the women's Olympic | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
mountain bike cross-country. Six laps, and we are just over halfway | :08:34. | :08:44. | |
through. Using the bankers -- banking root for start keeping the | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
:08:54. | :08:55. | ||
momentum, it is much more important. Sabine Spitz is not giving up. | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
Sabine Spitz is in third place. The reigning Olympic champion, almost | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
41 years old. She is clinging to Georgia Gould, the American, who | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
was sat in the middle of the pack and caught up in traffic on the | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
first lap. But made a fantastic stride forward towards the end of | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
the second lap. She has been slowly reeling in Julie Bresset. But Julie | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
Bresset, making this looked very easy at the moment, looking very | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
comfortable. Very good, consistent all rounder. There is not one | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
section of her race which is weaker at the moment. The tyre choice, no | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
big knobbly tyres, you need more surface contact. They go for the | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
finer tread pattern to dig into the gravel. This course would have been | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
absolutely treacherous in the rain. You can see and bandage on Julie | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
Bresset's left-arm. Both of the French riders went down in practice | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
yesterday. So reminder of how treacherous it is. You can get skin | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
:10:25. | :10:26. | ||
suits, it is a lighter way of of using clothing. No use for pockets | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
because they get regular feeding zones. And also there is | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
aerodynamics. Another great view of one of the technical sections as | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
Julie Bresset it drops into that. Picking her way through these it | :10:45. | :10:53. | |
may ease of boulders. Such sharp edges. If you go too hard, you miss | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
your line or put your tyre into one of those rocks, suddenly they huge | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
lead that Julie Bresset has extended, could be gone. You have | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
to remember, talking about Georgia Gould, she was second in the test | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
events on this course some time ago. Has been a little bit quiet since. | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
Competing largely in the US. That is why we have not seen too much of | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
her. Finishing very high in all of those events. As we go back to the | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
leader. How do you pick a line through that? Total commitment in | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
mountain biking. No hesitation. There is a line through the rocky | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
sections, but a few inches either side and you would be down. And if | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
you go down on there, the chances of the breaking bones is very high. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
With Julie Bresset, you used to see a lot of riders getting over the | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
back wheel in those sections, but she committed a lot of her weight | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
forward to get the speed up? Yes, confidence, leaning forwards. They | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
are mock desperately steep, just a very rocky. -- not desperately | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
steep. Sabine Spitz has got back on terms. You can see in the styles, | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
Georgia Gould working hard just to stay in the wheel. It is not over, | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
you do see riders blowing in this race as you come to the second | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
third. Julie Bresset has set such an incredible pace. Without any one | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
pushing behind her, can she sustain it? Even when she was leading, she | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
was leading with maybe 5%, 10% left in the bank. Georgia Gould tried to | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
force on. She looks like she is puffing now. They is no where to | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
recover, there is no where to sit in the wheels. It is a visible | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
marker, the wheel in front but no shelter. She is struggling to stay | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
in touch. The heat will have an effect, they are sheltered in this | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
bit here. But such a low speeds, once you overheat, it is difficult | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
to recover. I think we will see some riders close to having heat | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
stroke before the day is out. Just over half-an-hour of racing. If you | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
are wearing lighter all whiter outfits. New talked about it with | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
some of the Italians are choosing to wear white instead of a | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
traditional blue-collar? The s, the simple white garment on a hot day | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
:13:56. | :13:59. | ||
like this has got to be something of an advantage. Not much movement | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
at the top at the moment. Julie Bresset leads from Sabine Spitz. | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
Georgia Gould has had at fantastic couple of laps, but she is starting | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
:14:19. | :14:20. | ||
to get tired. Camp Irina Kalentieva and Annie Last draw her in | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
question-marks Annie Last is nearly a minute behind Julie Bresset now. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
I cannot see her getting back on terms. Julie Bresset looks in | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
control, her body language says, I am working hard but I am choosing | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
the pace I am riding at. We see Sabine Spitz, experienced rider, | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
did not panic or go with Georgia Gould, she just let the American | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
come back to her. Georgia Gould the dropping away, as the quadruple | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
Olympian, now she has made it to this London 2012 event. Sabine | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
Spitz is pulling away, a bit of a second wind for her. Julie Bresset, | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
coming down into this last little climb that carries her into the | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
finish straight. There is two laps to go from here and she has | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
:15:28. | :15:41. | ||
reeled this in a little. She has been going OK in the World Cup. 6th | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
at Val d'Isere. In defending champion, she knows about pressure. | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
You can see Julie Bresset. At the top of the picture. I think Julie | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
Bresset is getting quicker. Another super-fast lapped. She is not | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
slowing at all. This gap is now becoming very serious. Sabine Spitz | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
is the most experienced defending champion, she knows about pressure. | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
There is nothing she can do about the young French woman. Over 30 | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
seconds behind now. That is a big gap. Just over one hour and 40 | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
:16:43. | :16:44. | ||
seconds. Georgia Gould is tarring all the time. Kalentieva, she will | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
:16:54. | :16:56. | ||
come through in 4th place. Sheikh is almost one minute off the pace. | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
Here is Annie Last entering the frame, really working hard. Gasping | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
for air. Esther Suss starting to close the gap, using Annie as a | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
:17:21. | :17:30. | ||
marker. She has been during her in. pulling away. This course has found | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
everybody's their will. This one was a surprise, Catharine Pendrel | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
was the favourite for the event. She looked so dangers on the first | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
lap, then she has gently fallen down the pack. Unbelievably, | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
Dawidowicz, from Poland, who fell quite badly on the first lap in an | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
early section, has pulled herself back ahead of Catharine Pendrel. | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
She will be bitterly disappointed, reigning world champion. Recently | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
crowned 2012 World Cup champion. The favourite for the gold, well | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
down for a pack. Very wary of that section where she | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
fell. Nobody wants to go the easy but slower route. A lot of courage | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
to fall like that and persevere. In Russia and dealing with this level | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
of technical requirement on this descend with so much fatigue in | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
your legs, with more than one hour of racing behind you. | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
Your ability to concentrate as you become dehydrated becomes harder | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
and harder. Keeping your focus is a challenge. I don't think people | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
realise the demand on the muscles, it takes days to recover from a | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
race. The body takes such a pounding, as you try to hold the | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
:19:18. | :19:19. | ||
bike rigid through all of those Rock Garden so. -- rock gardens. | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
Julie Bresset has had plenty of opportunity to see how much of a | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
lead she has stretched out over Sabine Spitz and Georgia Gould. | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
That second place in the World Cup in Val d'Isere, she was on the way | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
to form, it wasn't her peak. A performance of her lifetime here, | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
riding with the charity, she has paced her effort -- riding with | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
maturity. Waiting for some daylight to appear, she hasn't pushed | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
herself into the red at all. Technically, she has been good. | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
Physically, I think she seems to have the endurance. Sabine Spitz | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
and Georgia Gould had the edge in the opening three laps, but she | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
:20:27. | :20:32. | ||
hasn't slowed done. Kalentieva. Very composed and focused, as she | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
drives up here. We really didn't know, having skipped several World | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Cups, how the Russian would perform here. It is a solid performance. | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
Some big gaps are forming now. waiting to see if Annie Last has | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
held off Esther Suss. Esther Suss has come through. A fantastic start | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
from Annie. She is young. She has chosen to compete in all of the | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
senior World Cups to get experience. She could have ridden as an under | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
23. And walked away with that. She has ridden with the best in the | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
world. She doesn't want to be compared with the younger riders. | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Ranked 5th in the world at the moment. Plenty of time for her to | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
develop. Technically, she is already possibly the best in the | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
world. She just needs to bring that physical ability up. Julie Bresset, | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
:21:49. | :21:51. | ||
23, is all there. Then 40, 32, 34. Not a young woman's game. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
endurance side of it, the physical aspect of mountain biking is what | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
you can see now, this wonderful shot we have of the climb. It takes | :22:02. | :22:10. | |
years to build up the muscle mass. Technical skill is the first thing. | :22:10. | :22:19. | |
Endurance, that comes with time. Julie Bresset is ahead of her time. | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
Just 23 years of age. Annie Last is the youngest rider in the top 15 by | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
some margin. Julie Bresset takes a bottle from her team. She makes her | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
way out of the technical station. She is going through the rabbit | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
hole, the track goes underneath itself. | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
Sabine Spitz is chasing had done. Is the deficit to great? I think | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
:23:10. | :23:17. | ||
the results are solidifying now. That is the split time. If Julie | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
Bresset does that at all, the German will be on top of her. This | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
race isn't over. We have seen with one mistake how much time you can | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
lose. I have seen it in World Cups this year. The lead changing hands | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
at the last moment, because of a crash. Even if it is not a mistake | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
from Julie Bresset. Mechanical malfunction, a puncture, anything. | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
Absolutely. Julie Bresset does have a good cushion. Potentially, to | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
deal with something like that. is exactly what she wants. She | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
:24:05. | :24:06. | ||
could get away with that. A lot of riders are starting to experiment | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
with courses flight is using a single chain ring at the front, | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
:24:24. | :24:24. | ||
selecting the right sprocket at the back. Most of choosing to go with | :24:24. | :24:33. | |
tulle -- dual chain rings. It saves on weight. It makes for faster | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
changes as well. And you are getting rid of an extra bit of | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
equipment. There's less debate about. One hand to change gear. | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
:24:53. | :24:54. | ||
That is it. She is well into the closing stages of this race. | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
Probably about 20 minutes to go. You can see from her attacking | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
style, she is sensing, I can become Olympic champion, I can start to | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
push it home. That is a huge lead. A glimpse of that aerial view, she | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
:25:21. | :25:22. | ||
is starting to drive that right. -- bike. There is hardly any rest | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
on this course. You are bouncing off the rocks, sticking to the line | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
you have seen in training. Or you are climbing hard up the banks. You | :25:32. | :25:42. | |
can see the wind in the grass. That is probably quite well from -- | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
welcome. She is not slowing down, look how | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
quickly she has taken that on. great line through the rocks. You | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
cannot see unless you have a head on shot, there is a correct line | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
through, you have to be millimetre perfect or you get in trouble. | :26:05. | :26:14. | |
Using the berms which have built up on the corners. So far, close to | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
immaculate performance from Julie Bresset of France. The battle is | :26:18. | :26:27. | |
still not finished behind. Silver and bronze. Sabine Spitz. She hates, | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
she is not as comfortable on these sections as his Julie Bresset or | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
Georgia Gould just behind her. Quite unusual on this course. That | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
is a great shot taking the line through the rocks. A lot of this | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
course, you can see how open it is. There are pink tassels at the end | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
of the road, they must stay within them. Normally there are barriers | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
or tape but they wanted to keep it open for these 20,000 spectators. | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
They decided to mark the edge of the course, they cannot pass | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
outside or they will be disqualified. Here is Sabine Spitz | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
going through the leap of faith, that big downhill section letters | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
with rocks. We have seen their take some would-be easy routes come up | :27:20. | :27:30. | |
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on the side of the course -- some of the easy routes. She is using | :27:30. | :27:40. | |
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traditional 26 inch wheels, sharing that the jury is still out between | :27:52. | :28:01. | |
the 29th and 26 inch wheels. It is all about the legs. | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
Will we get a glimpse of the Russian, Kalentieva? She is behind | :28:07. | :28:17. | |
:28:17. | :28:17. | ||
these two. Has she managed to reel them in at all? A battle for the | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
bronze medal. At the moment, certainly, the top three are very | :28:22. | :28:29. | |
settled. Just a glimpse, at the very back, Kalentieva of Russia. | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
Who knows now how far away she is from a medal. Sabine Spitz, | :28:34. | :28:44. | |
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comfortably in silver. There is the New Zealand SAT test, Karen Hanlen, | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
stopping to jump off her bike and running through that section. | :28:53. | :29:03. | |
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specifically this year. It is all about this one. Nothing about World | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
Cup, she has focused all her efforts on these Olympic Games, her | :29:16. | :29:23. | |
very first Olympic Games. It is not a bad one, really, is it? As good a | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
debut as you can get. You start to get the sensation now that it would | :29:28. | :29:38. | |
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take an awful lot of bad luck to be able to slow her down even down to | :29:39. | :29:49. | |
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arms and her knees. She has come so far since the bronze medal in the | :29:59. | :30:08. | |
under 23 race in 2009! She has romped through the field, what such | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
a mature experience, you would think she had been doing it for 20 | :30:12. | :30:20. | |
years. There is an experienced rider, Emily Batty. And other rider | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
expected to become testing at least the top five and we have not seen | :30:23. | :30:33. | |
:30:33. | :30:37. | ||
an awful lot of her. At the moment she is one of the few riders who | :30:37. | :30:44. | |
might have got into some technical difficulty at the start. She is in | :30:44. | :30:49. | |
25th out of the 30 that started. The judge shows you how hard this | :30:49. | :30:59. | |
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course is. We have been looking at this woman here. Julie Bresset, lap | :31:03. | :31:10. | |
No. 5 and she is flying, one hour and 15 minutes, 45 seconds. She is | :31:11. | :31:17. | |
doing well. Holding the pace at 15 minutes a lap. She looks like she | :31:17. | :31:24. | |
is working harder, but that fatigue. It is affecting everybody. It is | :31:24. | :31:30. | |
all about consistency, mountain biking. She is maintaining the pace, | :31:30. | :31:37. | |
that is the incredible thing. waiting for Georgia Gould to | :31:37. | :31:44. | |
explode. She won't give in. An experienced Sabine Spitz in front | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
of her. I am wondering if it will come down to a sprint between those | :31:49. | :31:59. | |
two. Julie Bresset will have around a minute's lead. Julia best set is | :31:59. | :32:05. | |
out of the lead. The battle now is for bronze and silver as Irina | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
Kalentieva makes her way down. Not too far off the pace but she does | :32:09. | :32:16. | |
have a lot of work to do. She is finishing well. As she comes round | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
this corner she will be able to seize Sabine Spitz and Georgia | :32:20. | :32:25. | |
Gould on the hill in front of her. That is not an insurmountable | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
challenge. It will depend on Sabine Spitz and Georgia Gould, maybe the | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
fight between them will take its toll and allow the Russians to get | :32:35. | :32:42. | |
back on terms. But she will have to do something special with just over | :32:42. | :32:51. | |
15 minutes of racing left. Esther Suss coming round that corner. One | :32:51. | :33:01. | |
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lap remains. And the bell is ringing. Esther Suss, has taken the | :33:06. | :33:16. | |
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5th. Julie Bresset already on the descent. A welcome bit of shade in | :33:16. | :33:21. | |
the trees. Just a few minutes, if she can keep it together, between | :33:21. | :33:29. | |
her and the Olympic title. Struggling a little bit on these | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
technical sessions and then grinding her way back to the German. | :33:33. | :33:41. | |
She will have to find something special. Julia prese leading, | :33:41. | :33:51. | |
:33:51. | :33:51. | ||
Sabine Spitz, over a minute off the pace. Georgia Gould in third, Irina | :33:51. | :33:57. | |
Kalentieva enforced. Annie Last is in 7th. Alexandra Engen from Sweden | :33:57. | :34:07. | |
has made a huge surge at the last four Stock and then Tanja Zac will | :34:07. | :34:17. | |
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-- coasting along the top of the rich as they drop into the trees. | :34:28. | :34:36. | |
It is almost 75% of this course is open. It is very different to | :34:36. | :34:43. | |
normal cross-country courses. is the leader, still looking well | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
on top a bit, showing no signs of cracking. Working hard but very | :34:48. | :34:54. | |
much in control. The cameraman and looking hopefully for another rider | :34:54. | :35:02. | |
behind her and then realising nobody was in sight. Georgia Gould, | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
such a good challenge for start she has to make the decision - that | :35:06. | :35:11. | |
does she have it in her to catch Sabine Spitz? I think if anything, | :35:11. | :35:18. | |
for the last few hundred metres, Georgia Gould has started to real | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
Sabine Spitz in false start she can smell a silver medal here at | :35:21. | :35:27. | |
Hadleigh Farm. I think it will come down to a sprint, perhaps? Working | :35:27. | :35:33. | |
hard now. They are both suffering, everybody is suffering at this | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
stage. Just a few minutes left. Can the American, Georgia Gould changed | :35:39. | :35:45. | |
the colour of the medal she is on course for. She is trying, she is | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
on the wheel of the American. driving so hard, you can see the | :35:50. | :35:56. | |
pain and determination on her face. Has been racing in America mostly | :35:56. | :36:01. | |
this year. But she wasn't on the list of favourites, so she is | :36:01. | :36:08. | |
excelling. You get the sense Sabine Spitz probably heard her breathing | :36:08. | :36:13. | |
down her neck and decided it was time to dig in and get going again? | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
A lot of the riders will have people from their country around | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
the course telling them what is going on. You will see boards at | :36:23. | :36:33. | |
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the side of the track, showing them the information they need to know. | :36:34. | :36:44. | |
:36:44. | :36:46. | ||
So, Georgia Gould is desperately trying to reel in Sabine Spitz. She | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
is making this look easy, isn't she? Nobody is going to touch this | :36:51. | :36:56. | |
23-year-old now. She stayed with the group and did not do anything | :36:56. | :37:02. | |
clever. Went to the front, took control and got the measure of them. | :37:02. | :37:08. | |
And then waited until it was the right time. Tested them a couple of | :37:08. | :37:13. | |
times up this climb. Sensed there was daylight and pushed on a bit | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
harder and nobody could respond. She just eased away, metronomic | :37:18. | :37:28. | |
:37:28. | :37:30. | ||
lead. She has been so even paced on such a hard to rain. Such an | :37:30. | :37:36. | |
incredible skill. Julie Bresset concentrating, keeping her focus. | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
Dropping one bottle and keeping up the next. -- picking up the next. | :37:41. | :37:48. | |
She has had an almost perfect race, this 23-year-old? She has made no | :37:48. | :37:54. | |
mistakes we have been able to see. The battle for the bronze medal is | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
more in contention, but it is stretching out now. It has always | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
been Sabine Spitz putting the pressure on. Georgia Gould tried it | :38:05. | :38:11. | |
two laps to make a charge, but the German real had back in. Georgia | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
Gould will have to try something special if she wants that silver | :38:16. | :38:24. | |
medal. I think we saw they used her last reserves in that last lap. | :38:24. | :38:29. | |
Sabine Spitz sensed it coming and you don't do three Olympics and not | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
know how to deal with the pressure. She gritted her teeth, strengthened | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
her resolve and got stuck in. I think Sabine Spitz is desperate to | :38:39. | :38:47. | |
claim the silver medal. They are at the same pace for travelling, just | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
a 15 second gap between them. Sabine Spitz is putting on the | :38:51. | :38:57. | |
pressure. She does not want this to come down to a sprint. This is the | :38:57. | :39:03. | |
moment she is choosing to drive on. It is working. Georgia Gould will | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
know eight minutes of pain could be the difference for her between | :39:07. | :39:13. | |
bronze and silver. Mentally, she has got to dig deep and start | :39:13. | :39:21. | |
driving on these climbs. Been some real surprises, with Dahle not | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
being in the running, Catherine Pendrel, the favourites, not here | :39:25. | :39:33. | |
at all. She is the way down at the moment. And it wasn't through any | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
kind of mechanical problem, just off the pace. That was the surprise | :39:38. | :39:44. | |
for everybody. Irina Kalentieva almost 30 seconds off Georgia Gould | :39:44. | :39:52. | |
now. The medals seems safe, we know who is going to be in there. We are | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
just deciding who will take the silver and who will take the bronze | :39:55. | :40:04. | |
medal. Because this woman, has been emphatic. For almost an hour and a | :40:04. | :40:11. | |
half now, she has dominated this race. She let Annie Last set the | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
pace for the first lap. And then slowly started to assert herself, | :40:17. | :40:23. | |
pulling these three riders away. This Sabine Spitz and Georgia Gould | :40:23. | :40:29. | |
and then just a relentless pace she set at the front has seen her | :40:29. | :40:35. | |
extend. The last real, hard climb for her now. She knows when she | :40:35. | :40:42. | |
gets on the top, it is mostly running down to the finish. She can | :40:42. | :40:49. | |
afford to be careful and not take any chances. She can choose any way | :40:49. | :40:54. | |
through now, if she wants for star we can see a few of the coaches in | :40:54. | :41:00. | |
the finish area. A couple of them are starting to dance. Looking a | :41:00. | :41:07. | |
little bit nervous. It is going to be a charge for the minor places. | :41:07. | :41:13. | |
Everyone has enjoyed the day out. Beautiful Sunshine, a cool breeze | :41:13. | :41:19. | |
off the sea. Fantastic scenery. And in means you can see almost all the | :41:19. | :41:29. | |
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way round for the five kilometres of this course. I imagine there | :41:31. | :41:41. | |
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will be a large party preparing to get going in France. A two year | :41:44. | :41:51. | |
elite contract for Julie Bresset, and they will be immensely proud | :41:51. | :41:57. | |
with what she has done. Georgia Gould choosing be easier line, and | :41:57. | :42:02. | |
then switching back. I think she has conceded a shot at the silver | :42:02. | :42:07. | |
medal by making that choice. Not happy to take the hardest route, | :42:07. | :42:16. | |
and that probably cost two seconds which could be critical. The shot | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
of the rail camera, set up on the climb. We have had some fantastic | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
imagery. This is the best imagery we have seen off a mountain bike | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
race. Tracking the riders through the most critical climbs and | :42:32. | :42:41. | |
descents false start here is Julie Bresset, up the Breath Taker. She | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
is just going to Crest, then she has a winding descent that leads | :42:46. | :42:51. | |
her down through the technical zone for the last time. She will be | :42:51. | :42:59. | |
sensing of there is only two climbs to go. Coasting down 4 star Kishi | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
is still pushing on, you can see the wheels sliding into these | :43:04. | :43:08. | |
grooves false start you almost sense she is enjoying the descent. | :43:08. | :43:13. | |
For me, don't take any risks, you have got this in the bag. But she | :43:13. | :43:18. | |
is not taking her thoughts of the pressure. Georgia Gould a thumping | :43:18. | :43:24. | |
at the pedals. I think she has done the right of her life, the young | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
American. She just refuses to give in. Made a mistake when she chose | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
the easier line through the last rock section. Considering the form | :43:34. | :43:44. | |
:43:44. | :43:48. | ||
she came in here on, she has done fantastically well. At 40 years old, | :43:49. | :43:57. | |
Sabine Spitz is an inspiration. To anyone who thought her elite level | :43:58. | :44:07. | |
:44:08. | :44:08. | ||
sport was confined to people in their 20s and 30s! Julie Bresset | :44:08. | :44:16. | |
coming round. This is the last climb, a short, steep climb. Very | :44:16. | :44:22. | |
technical, those hairpin bends. It is a tight circle on which to turn | :44:22. | :44:31. | |
the bike. Some very evil tree roots. They are treacherous when it is wet. | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
They forced Samuel Weale to slide sideways. In these dry conditions, | :44:35. | :44:44. | |
not too bad. -- your wheel. This would have been different in the | :44:44. | :44:49. | |
rain forced on she has not let up, look how hard she is driving. | :44:49. | :44:54. | |
promise of an Olympic gold medal spurring her arm up this hill. | :44:54. | :44:59. | |
Along with the crowds at Hadleigh Farm. Already celebrating, a little | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
wave to the camera. She knows she has a big gap, she will have been | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
told by her team at the side of the road. How could that would have | :45:07. | :45:17. | |
:45:17. | :45:27. | ||
helped. She is coming into the now. What a ride for the 23-year- | :45:27. | :45:32. | |
old, her first Olympic Games, and she will get a gold medal, that is | :45:32. | :45:38. | |
about as good as it gets. Enjoying this lap, effectively a lap of | :45:38. | :45:46. | |
honour, waving to the crowd. She knows she has time to spare. | :45:46. | :45:52. | |
Tactically and physically, the perfect race for Julie Bresset. | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
Around this last corner in front of the 20,000 strong crowd. She is | :45:57. | :46:07. | |
:46:07. | :46:14. | ||
Bresset of France the gold medal. Here, at the mountain bike cross- | :46:14. | :46:20. | |
country. She is absolutely delighted. Such a consistent ride, | :46:20. | :46:28. | |
she didn't put a foot wrong the entire day. Moving up to the big | :46:28. | :46:36. | |
league. Watching her here, she barely looks like she is heaving. | :46:36. | :46:44. | |
Just behind, the silver and bronze medal race has been settled. Sabine | :46:44. | :46:54. | |
:46:54. | :46:55. | ||
Spitz, the defending champion, showing as decency -- consistency. | :46:55. | :47:01. | |
Georgia Gould had pressured her but Sabine Spitz responded and got | :47:01. | :47:07. | |
stuck into this flat. She is happy with that, she knows she couldn't | :47:07. | :47:15. | |
have done anything else. Georgia Gould, also, she excelled today. | :47:15. | :47:20. | |
She showed real spirit. She didn't settle for a bronze medal, she | :47:20. | :47:30. | |
:47:30. | :47:30. | ||
tried for silver. Worthy medalists, all three, well clear of the field. | :47:30. | :47:36. | |
A fantastic performance from Julie Bresset, Sabine Spitz and Georgia | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
Gould. The other riders are starting to make their way around | :47:39. | :47:49. | |
:47:49. | :47:57. | ||
now. The Russian, colander macro, taking 4th position. And a | :47:57. | :48:03. | |
fantastic race from Esther Suss. She didn't start that well. She did | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
ever so well in the middle of that race, she reeled in back-to-front | :48:08. | :48:15. | |
pack. You can hear from the cheers that British rider Annie Last is in | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
the finishing area as well. Not quite getting herself into 6th | :48:20. | :48:30. | |
:48:30. | :48:41. | ||
position. That goes to the Swedish everybody saluting the crowd. In | :48:41. | :48:47. | |
road racing, it is only the weather. They have been through such a | :48:47. | :48:53. | |
gladiatorial experience. Annie Last, coming into the finishing straight. | :48:53. | :48:59. | |
The first British rider since Caroline Alexander to qualify for | :48:59. | :49:09. | |
:49:09. | :49:09. | ||
an Olympic spot. A fantastic race for the 21-year-old. She could have | :49:09. | :49:14. | |
stuck in the under 23 category but she stepped up. Riding with the | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
best in the world in the senior category to gain experience and | :49:18. | :49:24. | |
stretch herself. We will be hearing a lot more about Annie Last. | :49:24. | :49:32. | |
fantastic course. If you have enjoyed watching this, then | :49:32. | :49:41. | |
Hadleigh Farm will be open to the public, so make your way down here | :49:41. | :49:49. | |
and enjoy some mountain biking. 9th place for the Canadian. | :49:49. | :49:54. | |
favourite, finishing 3 1/2 minutes in arrears. One of the most | :49:54. | :50:04. | |
:50:04. | :50:13. | ||
weather. The wind has kept it caught enough but the summer has | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
brought out the crowds. The atmosphere has been absolutely | :50:17. | :50:23. | |
fantastic. If it had gone the other way, it would have been a rough day. | :50:23. | :50:29. | |
20,000 tickets were sold, sold out. What a day out, largely because of | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
the weather, fantastic competition, a beautiful course they can see in | :50:34. | :50:44. | |
:50:44. | :51:14. | ||
all directions. Davison takes 11th Annie, you powered through that | :51:14. | :51:20. | |
first lap, how much did that affect the rest of the race? I wanted to | :51:20. | :51:30. | |
:51:30. | :51:30. | ||
get a good start, to make sure I got here on the first lap. -- got | :51:30. | :51:40. | |
:51:40. | :51:44. | ||
clear. So that I didn't get stuck. Towards the end of the race, I | :51:44. | :51:50. | |
started to slip back a little bit. But I came today to get the best | :51:50. | :51:56. | |
out of myself. That is what I have done, I am really happy. Great to | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
finish smiling. How do feel when you see the field opening up, at | :52:01. | :52:11. | |
:52:11. | :52:13. | ||
the end? There is so much to think about. You are thinking about where | :52:13. | :52:20. | |
you are putting your wheels, power, you are racing, try to stay with | :52:20. | :52:25. | |
them. It is about focusing on yourself and make yourself go as | :52:26. | :52:32. | |
fast as possible. You are 21, one of the youngest in the field, do | :52:32. | :52:39. | |
take some reassurance from that? Obviously. Julie Bresset is an | :52:39. | :52:44. | |
amazing rider. A lot of the top riders are a bit older. I have done | :52:44. | :52:49. | |
anything I can, I am in my best shape. I still have a long way to | :52:49. | :52:55. | |
go. I am looking forward to moving on and up words in the next few | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
years. You have earned herself a lot of fans. The family lived close | :53:00. | :53:06. | |
by, what is it like to ride it in front of them? This crowd, | :53:06. | :53:12. | |
unbelievable. To have that much support out there is incredible. | :53:12. | :53:18. | |
They have been great, an amazing experience. Congratulations, Annie. | :53:18. | :53:28. | |
:53:28. | :53:29. | ||
I am certain this is not the last we will see of Annie Last. Fair | :53:29. | :53:36. | |
play to Annie. She finished smiling and had a lovely chat to us. A | :53:36. | :53:42. | |
great race. We will be back there tomorrow for | :53:42. | :53:49. | |
the men's race. Julie Bresset, such thing for an hour and a half in | :53:49. | :53:54. | |
that heat, then to lift her bike above her head. The new Olympic | :53:54. | :54:00. | |
champion. The Modern Pentathlon, the 200 | :54:00. | :54:10. | |
:54:10. | :54:14. | ||
metres swim. Those who achieve the time of 2 1/2 minutes will get | :54:14. | :54:21. | |
their points. After the fencing, willing macro and Nicholas | :54:21. | :54:31. | |
:54:31. | :54:51. | ||
Woodbridge work in the 30th place. heat. That was a flying start in | :54:51. | :55:01. | |
:55:01. | :55:17. | ||
for three hours. They are not coming in to this soaring event | :55:17. | :55:27. | |
:55:27. | :55:47. | ||
Egyptians are strong in the swimming, as we will sit in the | :55:47. | :55:57. | |
:55:57. | :56:20. | ||
now. He is third from the top in from Russia is coming back as well. | :56:20. | :56:27. | |
Sam will hopefully use Aleksander Lesun to drive him down this. They | :56:27. | :56:37. | |
:56:37. | :56:41. | ||
behind him, the roar of the crowd, quite unfamiliar for Modern | :56:41. | :56:51. | |
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Pentathlon eats. Samuel Weale, best time over the past 12 months. | :56:58. | :57:06. | |
He looks pleased with that. That will certainly help his position. | :57:06. | :57:16. | |
It is all about the time. That will give him a real feel-good factor it | :57:16. | :57:26. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds | :57:26. | :58:07. | |
touch over Aleksander Lesun as he crowd in the Aquatics Centre. | :58:07. | :58:17. | |
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final heat. Picturing the fastest heat. Looking out for Nicholas | :58:51. | :58:56. | |
Woodbridge in the centre of the picture. He turns in first place | :58:56. | :59:06. | |
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after the first 50m. Being chased all the way. He will be aware of | :59:11. | :59:16. | |
who is on his shoulder, right beside him. He has got to make this | :59:16. | :59:26. | |
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building up in here, as they approach the end of the third | :59:35. | :59:45. | |
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turn him under one minute 30. This could be a new Olympic record. | :59:59. | :00:06. | |
Nicholas Woodbridge has now left him too much to do to get back. | :00:06. | :00:16. | |
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He had swum under that Olympic time in the last 12 months, so it was on | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
the cards. We have seen an Olympic record equalled in the fencing and | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
beaten in the swimming. The Egyptian. He has broken his own | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
Olympic record he set in Beijing in 2008. A good start off the blocks | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
from Nick Woodbridge. There is the Egyptian driving through the water. | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
Taking over in the closing stages of the race. It was a beautifully | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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timed a swim. It is an Olympic record, it has just been confirmed. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
This was always on the cards that the Olympic record would be broken | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
and that is the man who has done it. Interestingly, there are only three | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
athletes that have dipped under the two-minute mark. That maybe | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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explains how much the fencing takes out of you. Nick Woodbridge will | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
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Those standings could change. They now go to Greenwich Park for the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
equestrian. With the show jumping they have never seen the horse they | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
are about to jump on. They draw lots, so it will be interesting to | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
see what happens after the next round. With one more day to go of | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
these Olympic Games, it seems incredible how they have flown back. | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
But sometimes you have to slow things down to get a snapshot of | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
the iconic moments we have all witnessed. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
What makes television at what it is, is its mastery of the moving | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
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picture. But sometimes, what doesn't move at all can be moving. | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds | :03:28. | :04:47. | |
And again, the connection between the moving and the still. The | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
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fastest mover of them all taking the still. The captured instinct. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
Wasn't that beautiful? First thing this morning, just after 9:30am, Ed | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
McKeever was poised in the Kayak single 200m final. He was in search | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
of Great Britain's 26 gold medal of the Games. As the fastest qualifier, | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
he was in a great position to propel himself ahead of the rest of | :05:22. | :05:32. | |
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tension. Miklos Dudas, the giant Hungarian. Hungary have brought an | :05:42. | :05:52. | |
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army of fans. And they have been so successful in this sport. There | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
will be the customary during for the shortest man in the field. Ed | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
McKeever. He won his heat, won his semi-final but what a challenge he | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
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will face from the Canadian. Quickest in the semi-finals. Then | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
we have the Surbean, the European champion. You know it is a good | :06:27. | :06:37. | |
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race when Ronald rock only just tension. The waters of Eton Dorney | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
rippling gently but about to be churned up by the quickest paddlers. | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
The men's 200m individual kayak. The and as it is wonderful. Heavy | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
with hope for Ed McKeever. Britain might have a gold medal to | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
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is powering on. He has such great strength. Ed McKeever holding on at | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
the moment as they come into the final 50m. He will have to work | :07:37. | :07:46. | |
hard. Still holding on, it is gold for Ed McKeever and Great Britain. | :07:46. | :07:55. | |
He becomes the Olympic champion. He went out fast and held on strong, | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
he was uncatchable. He has the gold medal. Absolutely fantastic, he | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
blew them away from the start as he powered away. Getting his stroke | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
rate a nice and height. He left everybody else waiting to catch up. | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
He will be absolutely delighted to top of what has been a fantastic | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
three years of competition since this 200m race has come in. | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
takes the acclaim from the crowd. Mark de Jonge comes home for the | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
bronze medal. The man who thought he wouldn't be here in the Olympic | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Games after breaking his finger earlier this year. He takes the | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
bronze for Canada. Max Beaumont just missing out for France. But | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
they could not get near Ed McKeever. He had a comfortable lead and | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
maintained it. It was incredible. This is the start he is renowned | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
for, he just gets his top speed, arms propelling and using his | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
upper-body. You can see the rotation through his shoulders. He | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
uses his strength to drive those blades into the water. The focus | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
this man has is incredible and the has not been fazed by anything | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
during this Olympic competition. did not need a little surge because | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
often these races are settled by inches and not feet. But that was a | :09:33. | :09:43. | |
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Hansen victory. That is what it means to become Olympic champion. - | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
- Hansen victory. What a performance from Ed McKeever. The | :09:52. | :10:02. | |
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sprint King of Kayak. Ronald Rohr, who knows what it means to win at | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
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the Olympic level. Confirmation of the result of. Mark de Jonge in the | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
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bronze for Canada. Saul Rivero That is what is is all about, Ed | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
McKeever, you have just been part of the medal ceremony, what was it | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
like? You almost don't believe it into a you had your hands on it. I | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
am not sure I will sleep tonight. When the anthem is being played, | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
what things are you thinking about? Just trying to remember the words! | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
An enormous sense of pride, so thankful I could do it in front of | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
my home crowd. I imagine when an athlete is enjoying a moment like | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
that they imagine all the things that made it happen. The fact he | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
moved house, your parents support to do, your fiancee supporting you, | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
and you moving house to be near the training centre. I don't want to | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
disappoint you, I was just in the moment and enjoying it. You have | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
been called the Usain Bolt of canoeing, he has got gold medals, | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
you have got gold medals, what do you think of that? Just pleased I | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
could follow him in that respect. What does the future hold? We be | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
going to Rio? That is four years of training and pain. We will wait and | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
see. I will take a break now for the next few weeks, probably six | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
weeks up until my wedding. And then I will see how I feel. Some | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
exciting times, you had just won the gold medal, your birthday in a | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
couple of weeks and then your wedding. I am getting too old to | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
celebrate birthdays, but the wedding will be a good one. I love | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
the way you just keep touching it. I am making sure it is real. It is | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
out of this world, all well done. I'm sure it will dawn on him very | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
soon. Ed Nicky the getting the second Olympic gold medal in | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
history, the first was Tim Brabants. Now we have Liam Heath and Jon | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
Schofield pedaling over the same distance. Going into this race, | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
they had picked up a medal in every final they have been in this year. | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
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today. We are ready for the final the customary British Rohr. 5th | :13:24. | :13:33. | |
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quickest coming into the final. This is the per to beat. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Astonishingly powerful winning both the heat and semi-final by almost a | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
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race in the 200m. It is very rare, might we have it here. In the heats | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
and the semi-finals suggested the Russians are the strong favourites. | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
Perhaps Belarus party fear as well. The lighter crew of Liam Heath and | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
Jon Schofield. The French pair, the world champions in lane two. The | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
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No one is going to catch them. It is Postrigay and Dyachenko. Heath | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
and Schofield are just hanging on to silver. Great Britain get the | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
bronze medal. A fine effort, but Postrigay and Dyachenko dominated | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
the heats and a semi-final, and they have blown away the field in | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
the final. Bella a skip the silver medal and Great Britain get the | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
bronze. -- Belarus. They dominated through the heats and semi-finals, | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
and I said they had more to give, which they'd just demonstrated. | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
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What a fantastic result for Great Britain. Jonnie Schofield's paddle | :16:03. | :16:13. | |
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has given up the ghost. But Russia, imperious. Just a few feet between | :16:22. | :16:31. | |
Belarus and Great Britain. A great race from Heath and Schofield, we | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
could not have expected much more than that. They executed the start | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
really well, but here is the Russian crew. So powerful working | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
so well together. They did not give away anything. They dominated it | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
and they're really made sure the title was theirs. They have | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
dominated the World Cup events, they have won two out of the last | :17:00. | :17:09. | |
three. They were working in unison, they had a look across, then | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
celebrated crossing the line. I think perhaps it is the most | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
comprehensive victory we have seen in the can as sprinting. Absolutely. | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
We kind of half-expected it during the early stages at Eton Dorney, | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
but they did not give anyone else a chance. This is the confirmation of | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
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Huge congratulations to Liam Heath and Jon Schofield, wrapping things | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
a beautifully at Eton Dorney. That takes her medal tally to 59. On to | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
diving, and Tom Daley struggled in the prelims last night. He had a | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
good night's sleep because this morning it was the 10m platform | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
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finals -- semi-finals. His aim was open better than he did last night. | :18:18. | :18:28. | |
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start we were hoping for, he was marginally short of vertical, but | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
it is a step up from last night. He may get over 80 points. It depends | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
how mean that judges are feeling. This is the second round dive. A | :18:49. | :18:59. | |
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nice solid start, as opposed to shout about! Beautiful entry into | :19:07. | :19:17. | |
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the water. There is still more to two and. -- two rounds. That is | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
another good one for him. A little bit loose as he entered the water, | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
but he keeps the splash down. Moving away from the diving board, | :19:37. | :19:47. | |
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sneaking into the paid shape, -- bit low on the water, but he plays | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
the waiting game. This was good last night and it is better today. | :20:03. | :20:13. | |
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He has been consistent. 81, 86, 84, this will be told that 85. -- will | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
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Daley, the dive of the competition so far for this young man. This is | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
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question! Make no mistake, he has responded in exactly the way he | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
needed to today. He went to bed last night, thinking, oh, My | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
goodness, what is it like? Now he has responded. He will definitely | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
be in the top five. It was a lot better than last night. I am | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
getting sharper, and it is hard to compete in the pre-lunch and the | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
semi-final when you know it does not count towards the medals, but | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
you need to do enough to qualify. That is the hardest part done, and | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
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now I have done that I will give it Jake Humphrey has arrived. You | :21:19. | :21:27. | |
followed him yesterday, and he was looking shaky. Yes, it was strange | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
because he was really struggling. Before he went off, Leon Taylor | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
said he looks nervous up there. I am hoping that the fact he has had | :21:35. | :21:39. |